Daring Quote by Rex Stout Download Open image “To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.” — Rex Stout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Daring Detectives Finesse Ingenious Joy
the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them! — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters. — Shane Black Copy Share Image
“Detective work is ninety-nine percent boring and one percent the kind of excitement no one should ever experience.” — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Daring young sleuth uncovers thrilling, dangerous, adventures goals and solves breathless suspense. — Kishore Bansal Copy Share Image
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction. — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
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… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
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… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“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… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
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… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself. — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban wilderness and… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and religion... I… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring… — Alex North Copy Share Image
A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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