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Rex Stout Quotes

Rex Stout quotes

American Writer December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975

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If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story. Rex Stout
Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter. 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
All there was to it, he was in a panic. He was scared stiff that any minute a fact might come bouncing in that would force him to send me down to Cramer bearing gifts, and there was practically nothing on earth he wouldn't rather do, even eating ice cream with cantaloupe or horseradish on oysters. Rex Stout
Rex Stout quote: "Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth..."
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. Rex Stout
Rex Stout quote: "There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and..."
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. Rex Stout
Rex Stout quote: "I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing."
I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing. 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
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
...if he had married Mrs. Albert Grantham for her money I freely admit that no man marries without a reason and with her it would have been next to impossible to think up another one.... Rex Stout
Rex Stout quote: "Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra..."
Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish. Rex Stout
Rex Stout quote: "I have a strong moral sense - by my standards."
I have a strong moral sense - by my standards. Rex Stout
Mrs. Rachel Bruner: [trying to goad Wolfe] I thought you were afraid of nobody and nothing. Nero Wolfe: [unruffled] I can dodge folly without backing into fear. Rex Stout
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all. Rex Stout
Rex Stout quote: "To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem..."
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. Rex Stout

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