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

Stout as a horse — Walt Whitman

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

A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair. — John Quincy Adams

The bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss. — Ruth Stout

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

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win. — Martha 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

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

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

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

James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona. — Kurt Busch

She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk. — Sara Sheridan

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

I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect. — Martha Stout

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield. — Patricia Briggs

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

I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him. — Martha 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

Everything in a story should be credible. — Rex Stout

So laugh, lads, and quaff, lads, twill make you stout and hale; through all my days, I'll sing the praise of brown October ale. — Reginald De Koven

To assert dignity is to lose it. — 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

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

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts. — Horace

It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made. — Milan Kundera

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

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

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

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

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

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. — F. E. Smith

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

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

Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted. — Tibullus

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

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

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

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden. — Ruth Stout

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives — Anne Sexton

Auger-eyed woman's small stout form, outlining her — Richard Flanagan

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

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

It's a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place. — Ruth 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

Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing. — Francine Mathews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one who now competes against Tiger Woods does so without wearing a similar competitive mask. Even as they try to forge ahead and — Glenn Stout

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

Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back. — Martha Stout

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life. — Martha 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

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

If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on. — Ruth Stout

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit. — Victor Hugo

A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time. — William Bushnell Stout

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

Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable. — Jonathan Weiner

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

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger. — Aristotle.

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

Only one person in Ely had such a tall, stout frame and such a long, bald, peanut-shaped head. — Julie Berry

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death. — Sophocles

Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide. — Matthew Scully

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 is peace in the garden. Peace and results. — Ruth Stout

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

In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig. — Dave Blood

Bert was short and stout. Cec was tall and lanky. Between them, there was nothing that they could not reach. — Kerry Greenwood

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

Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. — Ruth Stout

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

Controlling others - winning - is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else. — Martha Stout

The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on. — Ruth 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

Old Time is never discreet or tactful. — Rex Stout