Rex Stout Quotes

They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

Veiling truth in mystery.

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up.

Secrecy necessarily breeds suspicion.

One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.

I was able to hide a lot behind 'Walton,' and found that to be quite useful.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

People hide the truth because they're afraid.

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.

Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.

Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.

A woman conceales what shee knowes not.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.

Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along... or you're next.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.