Quotes by : Rex Stout

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

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.

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

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

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....

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....