“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
Rex Stout livro The Rubber Band
Fonte: The Rubber Band
Rex Stout, de seu nome completo Rex Todhunter Stout, foi um escritor norte-americano, especialmente conhecido por ter criado a personagem do detective privado Nero Wolfe. Wikipedia

“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
Rex Stout livro The Rubber Band
Fonte: The Rubber Band
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
Rex Stout livro Fer-de-Lance
Fonte: Fer-de-Lance
“I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.”
Rex Stout livro Might as Well Be Dead
Fonte: Might as Well Be Dead
Rex Stout livro The Doorbell Rang
Fonte: The Doorbell Rang
“Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.”
Rex Stout livro The Doorbell Rang
Fonte: The Doorbell Rang
“A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.”
Rex Stout livro The League of Frightened Men
Fonte: The League of Frightened Men
Life, "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I."
Rex Stout livro 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"