The Doorbell Rang Quotes

“Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.”
― Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang

“Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.”
― Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang

“for the first time in a popular novel I was reading about wrongdoing by the then-sacred institution, the FBI. I was reading open criticism and accusation of J. Edgar Hoover himself. I was reading it not from the typewriter of a young radical but from that of an old novelist.”
― Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang

“Have I got it straight?” He grunted. “I don’t like your pronouns.”
― Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang

“I can dodge folly without backing into fear. - Nero Wolfe in "The Doorbell Rang”
― Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang

“thaumaturge”
― Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang

“I had a classics professor at the University of Illinois who after giving a reading assignment said, with genuine emotion, “Oh, to be reading Boethius for the first time.” And so I say to you, “Oh, to be reading a Nero Wolfe mystery for the first time.”
—Stuart M. Kaminsky”
― Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang

“Patting a shoulder can be anything from an apology to a promise, and only the patter can say which.”
― Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang

“There are various reasons for keeping your mouth shut, but the best one is that you have nothing to say.”
― Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang

“handsome,”
― Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang

“rendered”
― Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang