Quotes by : Rex Stout

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

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

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

To assert dignity is to lose it.

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

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

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....

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

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