Quotes by : Rex Stout

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....

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

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

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

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....

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