Some Buried Caesar Quotes

“No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket or at least had been fooling around with timetables.”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket, or at least had been fooling around with timetables.”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“What’s the difference between a Catholic and a river that runs uphill?”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“One test of intelligence,” he said patiently, “is the ability to welcome a singularity when the need arises, without excessive strain. Strict rules are universal. We all have a rule not to go on the street before clothing ourselves, but if the house is on fire we violate it.”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“… and while I had been helping Wolfe get the orchids primped up I had been accosted by a tall skinny guy in a pin-check suit, as young as me or younger, wearing a smile that I would recognize if I saw it in Siam—the smile of an elected person who expects to run again, or a novice in training to join the elected person class at the first opportunity. He looked around to make sure no spies were sneaking up on us at the moment, introduced himself as Mr. Whosis, Assistant District Attorney of Crowfield County, and told me at the bottom of his voice, shifting from the smile to Expression 9B, which is used when speaking of the death of a voter, that he would like to have my version of the unfortunate occurrence at the estate of Mr. Pratt the preceding evening.

Feeling pestered, I raised my voice instead of lowering it. “District Attorney, huh? Working up a charge of murder against the bull?”

That confused him, because he had to show that he appreciated my wit without sacrificing Expression 9B…”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“I started to improvise a cutting remark, because I am methodical by temperament and like to see plans carried out when they have been made ...”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“When Stout heard the news of Wodehouse’s death in 1975, he expressed his admiration thus: “He always used the right words, and nearly always used them well.”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“Proscriptions carried too far lead to nullity.”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“Wolfe has taught me that one of the most important requirements for successful lying is relaxed vocal cords and throat muscles; otherwise you are forced to put on extra pressure to push the lie through, and the result is that you talk faster and raise the pitch and the blood shows in your face.”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“finally left the worst of the happy throng behind and made it to the Methodist grub-tent, having passed by the Baptists with the snooty feeling of a man-about-town who is in the know.”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“He, as always in the company of good food, was sociable and expansive. Discovering that Lily had been in Egypt, he told about his house in Cairo, and they chatted away like a pair of camels, going on to Arabia and making quite a trip of it. She let him do most of the talking but made him chuckle a couple of times, and I began to suspect she wasn’t very obvious and might even be smooth.”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“It stuck out all over him, one of those born-to-command guys. I never invite them to parties.”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“He broke off and glanced at me because a knock sounded at the door. I lifted from my chair and started across, but it opened before I got there and two men entered.”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar

“Wolfe snorted. "The man's a fool. It's only a cow pasture." Being a good detective, he produced his evidence by pointing to a brown circular heap near our feet.”
― Rex Stout, Some Buried Caesar