...if he had married Mrs. Albert Grantham for her money I freely admit that no man marries without a reason and with her it would have been next to impossible to think up another one....
Rex StoutStichwörter: marriage
You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.
Rex StoutStichwörter: dancing
Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.
Rex StoutStichwörter: problems soup fly
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
Rex StoutStichwörter: coincidences
Mrs. Rachel Bruner: [trying to goad Wolfe] I thought you were afraid of nobody and nothing.
Nero Wolfe: [unruffled] I can dodge folly without backing into fear.
Stichwörter: nero-wolfe
Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.
Rex StoutIt 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 StoutWolfe could get sentimental about it if he wanted to, but I don't like any stranger nosing around my private affairs, let alone a nation of 130 million people.-Archie Goodwin
Rex StoutI could have told, just looking at him, that that was the tone he would use asking a question. A tone that took it for granted any question he asked was going to be answered because he asked it. I don't like it and I know of no way anybody is ever going to make me like it.
Rex StoutShucked 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 StoutStichwörter: corn nero-wolfe
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