Rex Stout Quotes

To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some o...

Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie...

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy ...

To assert dignity is to lose it.

When an international financier is confronted by a holdup man with a gun, he automatically hands ove...

If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to t...

...if he had married Mrs. Albert Grantham for her money I freely admit that no man marries without a...

Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swampe...

Well." Wolfe was judicious. "You were not under oath. The police have been lied to informally many t...

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and ...

There are two kinds of statistics the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, onl...

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous

I would appreciate it if they would call a halt on all their devoted efforts to find a way to abolis...

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots...

The only difference between me and most people is that I'm perfectly aware that all my important dec...

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's re...

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to th...