Quotes by : Rex Stout

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, only....

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

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

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

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

If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell....

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

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

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