Triple Jeopardy Quotes

“I think the police and the FBI are quite capable of sacrificing the rights of a private citizen to what they consider the public interest.”
― Rex Stout, Triple Jeopardy

“By that time I would have been chewing on a railroad spike if I had had one, and Wolfe was working hard trying to be serene. Between nine-thirty and ten-thirty he made four trips to the bookshelves, trying different ones, setting a record.”
― Rex Stout, Triple Jeopardy

“The inquiring mind is rarely blessed with certainty; it must make shift with assumptions;”
― Rex Stout, Triple Jeopardy

“No, Mr. Vardas, I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man’s spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is an hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity. One of the prime ambitions of a jackass is to bray louder than any other jackass, and man is not …”
― Rex Stout, Triple Jeopardy

“Two people alone cannot answer a policeman’s questions anywhere in the world. It takes a whole country to speak to a policeman, and Tina and I—we do not have one.”
― Rex Stout, Triple Jeopardy