Nero Wolfe Quotes

#1. More people saying what they believe would be a great improvement. Because I often do I am unfit for common intercourse.-Nero Wolfe in Blood Will Tell

Rex Stout

#2. Only the man that knows to little, knows too much. Nero Wolfe

Rex Stout

#3. I knew how to use a dictionary, and if I was going to be spending time around Nero Wolfe, I would have to buy one."-Archie Goodwin in Archie Meets Nero Wolfe

Robert Goldsborough

#4. Is this Nero Wolfe's house?" The voice got me one-half awake. "Yes. Archie Goodwin." "This is Sarah Jaffee. I'm awfully sorry, Mr. Goodwin, did I wake you up?" "Not quite. Go ahead and finish it.

Rex Stout

#5. I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know.
(Nero Wolfe)

Rex Stout

#6. The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person, - Nero Wolfe

Rex Stout

#7. Currently he was going through the entire Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout, He'd just finished Murder by the Book and was in the process of downloading Triple Jeopardy to his e-reader when the alarm went off.

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#8. I have undertaken to to find an explanation for something that can't possibly be explained-Nero Wolfe

Rex Stout

#9. It strikes me, sir, that you are nearing the point where even a grateful American might tell you to go to the devil.-Nero Wolfe to an FBI Agent

Rex Stout

#10. Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
(Nero Wolfe)

Rex Stout

#11. Born in a stable,
Cradled in a manger,
In the world His hands have made,
Born a stranger.

Christina Rossetti

#12. An uncomfortable marriage can not bear the strain of the death of a beloved donkey.

Merrie Haskell

#13. 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.

Rex Stout

#14. Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life

Rex Stout

#15. We carry with us the weight of the past, and because we do not have a finely developed sense of history and historicism, it is a past that is still alive in our present. We wear the dust of history on our foreheads, and the mud of the future on our feet.

Shashi Tharoor

#16. We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Rex Stout

#17. To assert dignity is to lose it.

Rex Stout

#18. The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

Vincent Bugliosi

#19. I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.

Rex Stout

#20. Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

Rex Stout

#21. Do you think it could be that those in charge of the guilds keep the system in operation after it has outlived its original purpose? It seems to me that the system works by suppression of knowledge. I don't see what that achieves. It has made me very discontented, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Christopher Priest

#22. Intimacy absolutely requires that each person in a relationship be whole and individual. Codependence is not intimacy. Enmeshment - two people blending in such a way that one or both lose their identity - is not intimacy either.

Anne Katherine

#23. Pessimists have only pleasant surprises.

Nero Wolfe

#24. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef's ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish.

Rex Stout

#25. 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.

Rex Stout