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Famous Rex Stout Quotes
“To assert dignity is to lose it.”
“Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life”
“No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.”
“Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.”
“No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.”
“There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.”
“What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?”
“A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality”
“Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.”
“Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.”
“War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.”
“A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.”
“As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.”
“I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.”