Quotes About Rex Stout

Mrs. Jaffee a little earlier. I asked if he was escorting Mrs. Jaffee. "Certainly," he said virtuously. "She is my client. What's that noise you're making?" "It's something special," I told him, "and takes a lot of practice. Don't try it offhand. It's a derisive chortle.

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

Well, go on. I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

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

The Minister and the Choir Singer

Cramer said a word, loud, which I omit because I suspect that some of the readers of these reports are people like retired schoolteachers and den mothers.

Satisfactory, Archie,' he muttered. Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.

Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy taking exercise. He had recently got the impression he weighed too much- which was about the same as if the Atlantic Ocean had decided it was too wet...

His had a nice rug which he said was an eighteenth-century Feraghan.

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

Wolfe snorted. "The man's a fool. It's only a cow pasture." Being a good detective, he produced his evidence by pointing to a brown circular heap near our feet.

Amazing that a creature so obtuse could live so long without meeting disaster.

Are you Nero Wolfe's Archie Goodwin?" "No. I'm my Archie Goodwin. I'm Nero Wolfe's confidential assistant.

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

When Stout heard the news of Wodehouse's death in 1975, he expressed his admiration thus: "He always used the right words, and nearly always used them well.

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

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

Currently he was going through the entire Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout, He'd just finished Murder by the Book and was in the process of downloading Triple Jeopardy to his e-reader when the alarm went off.