Reversal of Fortune quotes

22 total quotes

Alan Dershowitz
Raj
Sunny von Bülow

View Quote Alan Dershowitz: Our new evidence will clearly indicate...
Judge: Professor, you know there isn't a single case which allows you to introduce new evidence on appeal.
Alan Dershowitz: Well, there is one, your honor, and you wrote it. Derrick. In Derrick, in Derrick, you yourself said that a case based on cir****stantial theory rather than fact only stands up if no other theory makes sense. The only way to show a better theory is to present it!

View Quote Alan Dershowitz: A priest? Well, a priest is the ideal witness: it's like getting the word of God
Claus von Bülow: I checked. God is unavailable.

View Quote Minnie: He says he doesn't have anything that'd help us.
Alan Dershowitz: You with me?
Sarah: Paydirt.
Raj: What's paydirt?
Alan Dershowitz: He's a lawyer. If he really didn't have anything, he'd give it to us. But there's something there, and he's going to fight like hell to hold onto it.

View Quote Claus von Bülow: I'm not afraid, Alan. Let the chips fall where they may.
Alan Dershowitz: That's what an innocent man would say.
Claus von Bülow: I know.

View Quote Claus von Bülow: [To the law team] What do you give a wife that has everything?
[silence]
Claus von Bülow: A shot of insulin.

View Quote Claus von Bülow: What do you call a fear of insulin?
[silence]
Claus von Bülow: Claus-traphobia.

View Quote Alan Dershowitz: You are a very strange man.
Claus von Bülow: You have no idea.