Stout Quotes

“I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!”

“At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.”

“Pray devoutly but hammer stoutly.”

“There are two kinds of statistics the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”

“doctor to stout patient: You've been swallowing your food again.”

“A stout heart breaks bad luck.”

“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find”

“Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.”

“It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous ”

“We feel that if someone is bad, he should be burdened with the knowledge that he is bad. It seems to us the ultimate injustice that a person could be evil, by our assessment , and still feel fine about himself.”