Quotes by : Rex Stout

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

To assert dignity is to lose it.

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

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....

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

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

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....

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