Rex Stout Quotes

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.
— Rex Stout Blood Will Tell

stomach

There are numerous layers of honesty, and the deepest should not have a monopoly.
— Rex Stout The Second Confession

honesty

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

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.
— Rex Stout Over My Dead Body

war

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. - Rex Stout quote.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
— Rex Stout

facts

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.
— Rex Stout The Red Box

home

All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made. - Rex Stout quote.

All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

decision-making subconscious

I had first noticed her in the lobby of the Churchill, because she rated a glance as a matter of principle—the principle that a man owes it to his eyes to let them rest on attractive objects when there are any around. - Rex Stout quote.

I had first noticed her in the lobby of the Churchill, because she rated a glance as a matter of principle—the principle that a man owes it to his eyes to let them rest on attractive objects when there are any around.
— Rex Stout Framed-Up for Murder

beauty

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