The Father Hunt Quotes

“Wolfe: 'Our next step is obvious, but it must wait...'
Archie: It was nice to know the next step was obvious, but it would have been even nicer to know what it was.”
― Rex Stout, The Father Hunt

“never try to do any deep thinking while I’m driving; the thinking gets you nowhere and the driving might get you where you would rather not be;”
― Rex Stout, The Father Hunt

“If you don't mind, Miss Rowan, I want to ask him something. I mean alone.’

'I don't mind,' Lily said, 'but I know him better than you do. He's working. When he's playing he's wonderful—usually—but when he's working he's impossible. He said he wouldn't give you any details, but if you want to try I don't mind.’

‘I do,’ I told Amy. ‘I've got things to do, and anyway there's nothing I could or would tell you.”
― Rex Stout, The Father Hunt

“When I am expected at a certain hour it's nearly always Lily who comes, I think on account of some kind of a notion she has about a maid admitting a man who has a
key. I have never tried to dope it. Other people's notions are none of my business unless they get in the way.”
― Rex Stout, The Father Hunt

“I was sorry I had missed it because talk by those two is always worth hearing. You get good examples of how much a man can say in a few words and also of how little he can say in a lot of words.”
― Rex Stout, The Father Hunt

“I never try to do any deep thinking while I'm driving; the thinking gets you nowhere and the driving might get you where you would rather not be;”
― Rex Stout, The Father Hunt

“She gave me a little smile, the dimples coming, and said, 'We don't really know ourselves, do we?'

'It depends,' I said. 'Some of us know too much, and some not enough.”
― Rex Stout, The Father Hunt

“Labels are for the things men make, not for men.”
― Rex Stout, The Father Hunt

“Detecting can be fun, but it can be a pain not only in the neck but also in the head, the guts, the back, the legs, the feet, and the ass. And often is. It was that time.”
― Rex Stout, The Father Hunt

“What are you, a scientist, or an artist?” Wolfe was frowning at him. “If you please, Mr. Jarrett, no labels. Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.”
― Rex Stout, The Father Hunt

“Sometimes it’s things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you’re hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you’re in a hurry, but usually it’s people.”
― Rex Stout, The Father Hunt