Death of a Doxy Quotes

“There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”
― Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy

“Of course the trouble was that the only way to get something out of your mind is to get something else in it.”
― Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy

“You should know that your only safe secrets are those you have yourself forgotten.”
― Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy

“Byron wrote ‘The glory and the nothing of a name,”
― Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy

“Business is taboo at the dinner table, but crime and criminals aren’t, and the Rosenberg case hogged the conversation all through the anchovy fritters, partridge in casserole with no olives in the sauce, cucumber mousse, and Creole curds and cream. Of course it was academic, since the Rosenbergs had been dead for years, but the young princes had been dead for five centuries, and Wolfe had once spent a week investigating that case, after which he removed More’s Utopia from his bookshelves because More had framed Richard III.”
― Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy

“If she got the fifty grand and picked a college that wasn't too far away, I might drop in after she had been there a while to see what effect she was having. It was a cinch that she would have more effect on it than it would have on her.”
― Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy

“Cramer said a word, loud, which I omit because I suspect that some of the readers of these reports are people like retired schoolteachers and den mothers.”
― Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy

“It’s the crop.”
― Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy