The Rubber Band Quotes

“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

“If you collected all the good faith in this room right now you might fill a teaspoon.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

“The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person. It is mine. I am sometimes successful.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

“But Mr. Cramer,.” Wolfe protested, “is it my fault if destiny likes this address?”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

“Well, go on. I don’t answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

“Though I suppose you’ve changed your mind, now that there’s a woman sleeping in your bed—” “Nonsense. My bed—” “You own all the beds in this house except mine, don’t you? Certainly it’s your bed.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

“No guy who knows he’s right because he’s too conceited to be wrong can be expected to go into conference about it.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

“Your meddlings have not entitled you to usurp the fatal dignity of Atropos; don’t flatter yourself.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

“Miss Fox. The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person. It is mine. I am sometimes successful. Take, for instance, your statement that you did not steal that money.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

“You know, Mr. Goodwin, this house represents the most insolent denial of female rights the mind of man has ever conceived. No woman in it from top to bottom, but the routine is faultless, the food is perfect, and the sweeping and dusting are impeccable. I have never been a housewife, but I can’t overlook this challenge. I’m going to marry Mr. Wolfe, and I know a girl that will be just the thing for you, and of course our friends will be in and out a good deal. This place needs some upsetting.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

“He was like the mule in the story that kept running into trees; he wasn’t blind, he was just so mad he didn’t give a damn.”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

“Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy taking exercise. He had recently got the impression he weighed too much- which was about the same as if the Atlantic Ocean had decided it was too wet...”
― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band