228 Quotes by Rex Stout

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

All men are reasoning animals more than any other animal. They have a bigger brain and better brain. And we reason with our brain.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

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.

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

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

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