Curtains for Three Quotes

“For nine months of the year Inspector Cramer of Homicide, big and broad and turning gray, looked the part well enough, but in the summertime the heat kept his face so red that he was a little gaudy.”
― Rex Stout, Curtains for Three

“am quite aware that I bat close to a thousand on invitations to damsels only because I don’t issue one unless the circumstances strongly indicate that it will be accepted.”
― Rex Stout, Curtains for Three

“Life, I tell my sons, is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
― Rex Stout, Curtains for Three

“A scared man is only half a man.”
― Rex Stout, Curtains for Three

“please?” “Ridiculous,” he said curtly,”
― Rex Stout, Curtains for Three