Over My Dead Body Quotes

“Wolfe 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 Stout, Over My Dead Body

“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, Over My Dead Body

“War doesn’t mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread. Pfui!”
― Rex Stout, Over My Dead Body

“When an international financier is confronted by a holdup man with a gun, he automatically hands over not only his money and jewelry but also his shirt and pants, because it doesn't occur to him that a robber might draw the line somewhere.”
― Rex Stout, Over My Dead Body

“As I trotted down the hall, Fritz was holding the street door open and three people were entering in the shape of a sandwich – a dick, Zorka, and another dick.”
― Rex Stout, Over My Dead Body

“War doesn’t mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.”
― Rex Stout, Over My Dead Body

“A man named Olin Miller has said, “Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.”
― Rex Stout, Over My Dead Body

“My dinner's in an hour, and I don't want to waste time flopping around in a mire of inanities.”
― Rex Stout, Over My Dead Body

“In a moment Wolfe said gruffly, "It is faintly encouraging that you are aware that you were stupid.”
― Rex Stout, Over My Dead Body