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Rex Stout Quotes

Rex Stout quotes

American Writer December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975

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Rex Stout quote: "As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along..."
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. Rex Stout
As long as I live I'll never forget the time he had a bank president pinched, or rather I did, on no evidence whatever except that the fountain pen on his desk was dry. I was never so relieved in my life as when the guy shot himself an hour later. Rex Stout
Rex Stout quote: "You can't base your actions on the theory that anyone you..."
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
Rex Stout quote: "Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my..."
Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.(Nero Wolfe) Rex Stout
She turned back to me, graceful as a big cat, straight and proud, not quite smiling, her warm dark eyes as curious as if she had never seen a man before. I knew damn well I ought to say something, but what? The only thing to say was “Will you marry me?” but that wouldn’t do because the idea of her washing dishes or darning socks was preposterous. Rex Stout
Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia......Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death."The... Rex Stout
Rex Stout quote: "I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the..."
I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best. Rex Stout
The point is, did she kill that woman? If I thought she did I would bow out quick — I would already have bowed out because it would have been hopeless. But she didn’t One will get you ten that she didn’t. If she had—” The interruption wasn’t words; it was her lips against mine and her palms covering my ears. If she had been Wolfe’s client I would have shoved her off quick, since that sort of demonstration only ruffles him, but she was mine and there was no point in hurting her feelings. I... Rex Stout
Rex Stout quote: "This is the unluckiest day I've had since my rich uncle..."
This is the unluckiest day I've had since my rich uncle changed doctors. Rex Stout
She had been a pleasant surprise. From what her father had said I had expected an intellectual treat in a plain wrapper, but the package was attractive enough to take your attention off of the contents....she was not in any way hard to look at, and those details which had been first disclosed when she appeared in her swimming rig were completely satisfactory. Rex Stout
Fritz was standing there, four feet back from the door to the office, which was standing open, staring wide-eyed at me. When he saw I was looking at him he beckoned me to come, and the thought popped into my mind that, with guests present and Wolfe making an oration, that was precisely how Fritz would act if the house was on fire. Rex Stout
If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you're not really surprised. Rex Stout
When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house there wasn't even hyphen between us. Rex Stout
You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful. Rex Stout
Wolfe could get sentimental about it if he wanted to, but I don't like any stranger nosing around my private affairs, let alone a nation of 130 million people.-Archie Goodwin Rex Stout

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