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That's ill-advised. More, it's puerile. — Rex Stout

I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion. — Rex Stout

As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him. — Rex Stout

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off — Rex Stout

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick. — Rex Stout

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
(Nero Wolfe) — Rex Stout

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it. — Rex Stout

I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions. — Rex Stout

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold
if you have one. — Rex Stout

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things. — Rex Stout

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted. — Rex Stout

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same. — Rex Stout

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear. — Rex Stout

Fritz giggled. He's the only man I've ever known who could giggle without giving you doubts about his fundamentals. — Rex Stout

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. — Rex Stout

This is the unluckiest day I've had since my rich uncle changed doctors. — Rex Stout

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. — Rex Stout

Archie.'
'Yes, sir.'
'Do I ever intrude in your private affairs?'
'Yes, sir. Frequently. But you think you don't, so go right ahead. — Rex Stout

I was yelling at a dame with a frontage that would have made a good bookshelf. — Rex Stout

No. The morning will do. You're impetuous." He looked at the wall clock. Fritz would come any minute to announce dinner. "Can you get Saul now? — Rex Stout

Invade a man's privacy and then put the burden on him. — Rex Stout

I'm not hysterical." "Of course you are. All women are. Their moments of calm are merely recuperative periods between outbursts. I — Rex Stout

No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket or at least had been fooling around with timetables. — Rex Stout

The least offensive way of refusing a request is not to let it be made. — Rex Stout

Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat. — Rex Stout

Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot. — Rex Stout

MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it. — Rex Stout

He does not admit this, but no man is so poor that he cannot afford a what if ... — Rex Stout

Everything in a story should be credible. — Rex Stout

A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating. — Rex Stout

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him. — Rex Stout

To assert dignity is to lose it. — Rex Stout

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life — Rex Stout

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. — Rex Stout

Of course, a hole in the ice offers peril only to those who go skating. — Rex Stout

Dived through the rain across the sidewalk, found — Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene. — Rex Stout

I think the police and the FBI are quite capable of sacrificing the rights of a private citizen to what they consider the public interest. — Rex Stout

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know.
(Nero Wolfe) — Rex Stout

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing. — Rex Stout

The passions smothered by modem civilization are doubly ferocious when awakened, — Rex Stout

The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime. — Rex Stout

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. — Rex Stout

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat. — Rex Stout

But Mr. Cramer,." Wolfe protested, "is it my fault if destiny likes this address? — Rex Stout

Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish. — Rex Stout

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person, - Nero Wolfe — Rex Stout

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living - cook books and detective stories. — Rex Stout

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout

It strikes me, sir, that you are nearing the point where even a grateful American might tell you to go to the devil.-Nero Wolfe to an FBI Agent — Rex Stout

You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment — Rex Stout

But when you're there, there you are, and — Rex Stout

More people saying what they believe would be a great improvement. Because I often do I am unfit for common intercourse.-Nero Wolfe in Blood Will Tell — Rex Stout

I have undertaken to to find an explanation for something that can't possibly be explained-Nero Wolfe — Rex Stout

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe. — Rex Stout

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled. — Rex Stout

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best. — Rex Stout

Opinions, from experts, cost money. — Rex Stout

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach. — Rex Stout

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. — Rex Stout

Nothing is quite so uncomfortable as a loose conscience. — Rex Stout

Nothing is obvious in itself. Obviousness is subjective. — Rex Stout

Everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked — Rex Stout

You know what my boss says? He says that skepticism is a good watchdog if you know when to take the leash off. — Rex Stout

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature? — Rex Stout

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to. — Rex Stout

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself. — Rex Stout

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. — Rex Stout

To drink champagne with a blonde at one elbow and a brunette at the other gives a man a sense of well-being, and — Rex Stout

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous. — Rex Stout

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. — Rex Stout

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits. — Rex Stout

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote. — Rex Stout

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality — Rex Stout

He was as indignant and irritated as if he had been served a veal cutlet with an egg perched on it. — Rex Stout

There has never been a smoother operation since Whosis scattered the dust on the temple floor. — Rex Stout

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world. — Rex Stout

To anyone seeing him but not knowing him, Saul Panzer was nothing but a little guy with a big nose who never quite caught up with his shaving. — Rex Stout

man with his frontal lobes pushed back like that is unpredictable. — Rex Stout

I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls. — Rex Stout

If you want to be contentious wait until you learn what you have to contend with. It works better that way. — Rex Stout

I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience. — Rex Stout

Old Time is never discreet or tactful. — Rex Stout

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful. — Rex Stout

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized. — Rex Stout

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread. — Rex Stout

You can't base your actions on the theory that anyone you don't keep your eye on is apt to get killed. — Rex Stout

Only the man that knows to little, knows too much. Nero Wolfe — Rex Stout

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books. — Rex Stout

If you collected all the good faith in this room right now you might fill a teaspoon. — Rex Stout

When I consider myself superior to anyone, as I frequently do, I need a better reason than his skin. — Rex Stout

To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices. — Rex Stout

He growled. "You know quite well that that locution is vile. — Rex Stout

She's capable of anything, and she's as deft as a bear's tongue. — Rex Stout

I said it is vainglorious to reproach yourself for lack of omniscience. That is also true of omnipotence. Report in as you can. — Rex Stout

That's one of the disadvantages of being poor, you don't dare kill anybody. — Rex Stout

Loyalty is a very fine thing, but it shouldn't be allowed to get the bit between its teeth. I — Rex Stout

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards. — Rex Stout

He's sick." "What with?" "Sitzenlust. Chronic. The opposite of wanderlust. — Rex Stout

When people's brains stop working, just go somewhere else. (Death of a Doxie) — Rex Stout