“Nella vita tutto, tranne la coltura delle orchidee, deve avere uno scopo.”
Rex Stout libro La traccia del serpente (romanzo)
Nero Wolfe
La traccia del serpente
Lavori
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Rex Stout frasi celebri
“A ogni uomo spettano di diritto soddisfazioni intense come i suoi dolori.”
Rex Stout libro Nelle migliori famiglie
Nelle migliori famiglie
“La distruzione del denaro è l'unico autentico sacrilegio di cui ci sia stato tramandato l'orrore.”
Rex Stout libro La traccia del serpente (romanzo)
Nero Wolfe
La traccia del serpente
Rex Stout libro La guardia al toro
Origine: La guardia al toro, p. 77
Rex Stout Frasi e Citazioni
Rex Stout libro Cordialmente invitati a incontrare la morte
Nero Wolfe
Cordialmente invitati a incontrare la morte
“Nell'attività umana non c'è nulla di impertinente come un'inchiesta giudiziaria fatta a dovere…”
Rex Stout libro La guardia al toro
Origine: La guardia al toro, p. 67
Archie Goodwin durante un interrogatorio
Non abbastanza morta
“Per lui qualunque cosa con una gonna è una signora.”
Archie Goodwin parla di Fritz
Orchidee nere
“Il bello non esiste in natura.”
Rex Stout libro La traccia del serpente (romanzo)
Nero Wolfe
La traccia del serpente
Rex Stout: Frasi in inglese
“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
Rex Stout libro Sei per uno
Origine: The Rubber Band
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
Rex Stout libro La traccia del serpente (romanzo)
Origine: Fer-de-Lance
Rex Stout libro The Red Box
Origine: The Red Box
“I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.”
Rex Stout libro Might as Well Be Dead
Origine: Might as Well Be Dead
Rex Stout libro The Doorbell Rang
Origine: The Doorbell Rang
“Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.”
Rex Stout libro The Doorbell Rang
Origine: The Doorbell Rang
“A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.”
Rex Stout libro The League of Frightened Men
Origine: The League of Frightened Men
Life, "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I."
Rex Stout libro Bad for Business
Dol Bonner, to her employee Amy Duncan, chapter 2
Bad for Business
Rex Stout, on why he turned from writing serious fiction to detective stories
The New York Times, "An Interview with Mister Rex Stout"
Rex Stout, page 244
Invitation to Learning
Life, "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I."
“My God you love to get them, and good Lord you hate to answer them.”
On letters from his readers
The New York Times, "Rex Stout, 85, Gives Clues on Good Writing"
Rex Stout, pp. 248–249
Invitation to Learning
Life, "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I."
“There isn't a generation gap between you and me — there's two.”
Rex Stout to photographer Jill Krementz
Publishers Weekly
Life, "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I."
he had better quit.
Rex Stout
The New York Times, "Talk with Rex Stout"
Rex Stout, who published two titles — The Nero Wolfe Cookbook and Please Pass the Guilt — in his 86th year
Publishers Weekly
On his work on Our Secret Weapon, as quoted in "Mystery Story Writer Turns Detective, Finding Axis Lies; Rex Stout, Creator of Nero Wolfe, Using Our Secret Weapon — Truth" by Trudi McCullough in The Milwaukee Journal (30 September 1942) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420930&id=tO4ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3279,6165010
Life, "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I."
Life, "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I."
Rex Stout, page 3
Royal Decree: Conversations with Rex Stout
“It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene.”
Rex Stout, page 247
Invitation to Learning
Nixon was re-elected in 1972, but Stout survived his August 1974 resignation from the Presidency by more than a year.
The New York Times, "Rex Stout, 85, Gives Clues on Good Writing"
