Rex Stout - Man Quotes

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Any man who undertakes to write a play is either a damn fool or a hero, I don't know which. When you write a book, you pull it out of the typewriter and that's that. When you write a play you've got to go on with the producer and the director and the actors and the rehearsals and the...

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

Rex Stout
There are various ways to call a man a liar. One way is just to scream it at him, which doesn't prove anything. Another is to establish facts by long and patient investigation. Still another way is not to call him a liar at all — let him do it himself.

Rex Stout
No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

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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.

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I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

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Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Rex Stout
No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

Rex Stout
No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.

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