Fer-de-Lance
Rex Stout
Top 10 Best Quotes
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
“You know what my boss says? He says that skepticism is a good watchdog if you know when to take the leash off.”
“I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.”
“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.”
“but I had long since learned from Wolfe that the corner the light doesn’t reach is the one the dime rolled to.”
“To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.”
“...it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery.”
“... nature has arranged that when you overcome a given inertia the resulting momentum is proportionate. If I were to begin borrowing money I would end by devising means of persuading the Secretary of the Treasury to lend me the gold reserve.”
“skepticism is a good watchdog if you know when to take the leash off.”
“seemed likely to remain so for another seven, or even twenty-seven, for the only girl I had ever been really soft on had found another bargain she liked”
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