A Nero Wolfe Mystery Quotes

It's a scientific fact that girls are more beautiful spiritual, more fascinating after they've had a baby...

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Anyone lies when the alternative is intolerable.

Curiosity creeps into the homes of the unfortunate under the names of duty or pity.

Nothing is as pitiable as a man afraid of a woman.

Had I remained lean, I would be dead by now. Like you, I was once idiotically romantic. But was cured me; war pickles men in a bride of disgust and dread.

— My god, wouldn’t it be wonderful if you just put your arms Around me and told me, "it’s all right, my darling. I’ll take care of everything, leave it to me."
— Oh... It’s all right, my darling, I’ll take care of everything. Leave it to me. Now what?
— Why didn’t I get me a man? I could’ve had a dozen, but no, I had to do it all by myself. And now here I am with a Jaguar and no man. How do you set fire to a car?
— Well, you, uh, pour gasoline all over it, you light a match, Toss it, and jump back real fast. You gotta be careful what you tell the insurance company, Or you might end up in the can.

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- My god, wouldn’t it be wonderful if you just put your arms Around me and told me, "it’s all right, my darling. I’ll take care of everything, leave it to me."
- Oh... It’s all right, my darling, I’ll take care of everything. Leave it to me. Now what?
- Why didn’t I get me a man? I could’ve had a dozen, but no, I had to do it all by myself. And now here I am with a Jaguar and no man. How do you set fire to a car?
- Well, you, uh, pour gasoline all over it, you light a match, Toss it, and jump back real fast. You gotta be careful what you tell the insurance company, Or you might end up in the can.

— I wouldn’t mind that. We’ll go somewhere. See, I know you’re the kind of man I could talk to, you’d understand.
— I have the feeling you could thaw me in about four or five hours, and your voice could thaw a refrigerator, but we don’t have time for that now.