[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

- Rex Stout

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

- Rex Stout

I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, p…

- Rex Stout

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

- Rex Stout

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

- Rex Stout

The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

- Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

- Rex Stout

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

- Rex Stout

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

- Rex Stout