--- title: "4 Detective Quotes By Rex Stout" description: "4 Detective quotes by Rex Stout. Plus more from Rex Stout and more Detective sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/rex-stout-2846_boards_if-i-m-home-with-no-chore-at-hand-and-a_127838.jpg" --- > [If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/if-i-m-home-with-no-chore-at-hand-and-a-package-of-books-has-come-the/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/rex-stout-2846_boards_if-i-m-home-with-no-chore-at-hand-and-a_127838.jpg) > [“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/frankly-i-wish-i-could-make-my-heart-quit-doing-an-extra-thump-when/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/169/rex-stout-2846_childish_frankly-i-wish-i-could-make-my-heart-qui_191070.png) > [Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/of-course-the-modern-detective-story-puts-off-its-best-tricks-till/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba3/rex-stout-2846_courses_of-course-the-modern-detective-story-put_1055699.png) > [“Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy taking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/wolfe-still-paid-no-attention-to-me-as-a-matter-of-fact-i-didn-t/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/464/rex-stout-2846_atlantic-ocean_wolfe-still-paid-no-attention-to-me-as-a_2167911.png) ## Other authors on Detective - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-abramelin-keldor-26264.jpg) Abramelin Keldor 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/detective/abramelin-keldor/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-raymond-chandler-77612.jpg) Raymond Chandler 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/detective/raymond-chandler/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nic-pizzolatto-70978.jpg) Nic Pizzolatto 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/detective/nic-pizzolatto/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-agatha-christie-9726.jpg) Agatha Christie 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/detective/agatha-christie/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-cary-fukunaga-2753.jpg) Cary Fukunaga 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/detective/cary-fukunaga/) - [Kendric Neal 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/detective/kendric-neal/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-arthur-conan-doyle-14897.jpg) Arthur Conan Doyle 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/detective/arthur-conan-doyle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alan-bradley-10266.jpg) Alan Bradley 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/detective/alan-bradley/) ## More by Rex Stout > [A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/a-person-who-does-not-read-cannot-think-he-may-have-good-mental/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/if-i-m-home-with-no-chore-at-hand-and-a-package-of-books-has-come-the/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/to-say-that-man-is-a-reasoning-animal-is-a-very-different-thing-than/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/frankly-i-wish-i-could-make-my-heart-quit-doing-an-extra-thump-when/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/what-good-is-an-obscenity-trial-except-to-popularize-literature/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/in-a-world-that-operates-largely-at-random-coincidences-are-to-be/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [“everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/everything-from-war-to-picnics-depends-on-the-weather-as-wolfe/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/the-more-you-put-in-your-brain-the-more-it-will-hold-if-you-have-one/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/when-we-turned-right-on-thirty-fifth-street-our-suffix-came-along-by/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/what-the-tongue-has-promised-the-body-must-submit-to/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/the-glass-key-is-better-than-anything-hemingway-ever-wrote/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/genius-is-fine-for-the-ignition-spark-but-to-get-there-someone-has-to/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/a-dickens-character-to-me-is-a-theatrical-projection-of-a-character/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [“To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/to-pronounce-french-properly-you-must-have-within-you-a-deep/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) > [A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/a-man-may-debar-nonsense-from-his-library-of-reason-but-not-from-the/) [Rex Stout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-stout/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/detective/rex-stout/#itemlist", "name": "4 Detective Quotes By Rex Stout", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rex Stout" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-stout/if-i-m-home-with-no-chore-at-hand-and-a-package-of-books-has-come-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/rex-stout-2846_boards_if-i-m-home-with-no-chore-at-hand-and-a_127838.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/rex-stout-2846_boards_if-i-m-home-with-no-chore-at-hand-and-a_127838.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/rex-stout-2846_boards_if-i-m-home-with-no-chore-at-hand-and-a_127838.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board…” — Rex Stout", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. 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