Too Many Women Quotes

“When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house there wasn't even hyphen between us.”
― Rex Stout, Too Many Women

“This is the unluckiest day I've had since my rich uncle changed doctors.”
― Rex Stout, Too Many Women

“Yes, I said something to him, and then I cooled him off.” “Cooled? By what process?” “I knocked him halfway across Broadway and took my wife.” “You did?” Wolfe scowled at him. “What’s the matter with your brain? Does it leak?”
― Rex Stout, Too Many Women

“Wolfe was reading three books at once. He had been doing that, off and on, all the years I had been with him, and it always annoyed me because it seemed ostentatious.”
― Rex Stout, Too Many Women

“It’s a waste of time trying to extract a conviction from an Irishman.”
― Rex Stout, Too Many Women

“You’re too old to hit,” I conceded, standing up. “But I know a trick that’s supposed to make dumb animals talk, and it would be fun to try—”
― Rex Stout, Too Many Women

“Loyalty is a very fine thing, but it shouldn’t be allowed to get the bit between its teeth. I”
― Rex Stout, Too Many Women

“one of my favorite rules is never to let a woman start an argument about what she said or what I said. You”
― Rex Stout, Too Many Women

“I made a note to quit trying to understand women and start trying to understand men.”
― Rex Stout, Too Many Women

“A tiger’s eyes can’t make light, Saul, they can only reflect it.”
― Rex Stout, Too Many Women