Rex Stout
Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stoutwas an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas between 1934 and 1975...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 December 1886
CountryUnited States of America
equality trying would-be
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
damn great-writers
There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.
rivals detectives foxes
Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you...
ignorance safe dangerous
There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.
fear dodge folly
Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.
women mean men
No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.
women done experts
I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.
women intellectual process
Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
women taken tickets
No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.
cooking kitchen female
Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.
party ego president
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.
mistake responsibility assuming
I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.
based believe man rational reasoning
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.
billions inside joined minute particles womb
The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.