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Вообще-то он просил вам передать, что вы простофиля, но, поскольку я думаю, что было бы тактичнее не упоминать об этом, я молчу.

They trust no one, especially not one another, and I don't blame them. - Nero Wolfe on the members of American Comminist Party

Stevens smiled, and, seeing what he regarded as a smile, I decided to have my daughter ask someone else for directions. - Archie Goodwin

Some day, sir, you're going to get on the wrong train by trying to board before it arrives. - Nero Wolfe

You can judge my frame of mind when I state that I halfway suspected that he had picked on Elinor merely because I had gone to a little trouble to have her seated nearest me the night of the party. - More Wolfe/Goodwin jealousy.

Money may be everything, but it makes a difference how you get it. - Archie Goodwin

That's no way to run a palace. If a rug gets a damp dirty footprint, what the hell, toss it out and roll out another one, that's the palace spirit. - Archie Goodwin

Государство, как и индивидуум, тратит деньги по одной из трёх причин: потому, что ему это нужно, потому, что ему этого хочется, и просто потому, что у него есть что тратить. Последнее — наиболее огорчительно.

Fritz, who understands me, had fresh hot oatmeal ready, the chill off my bottle of cream, the eggs waiting for the pan, the ham sliced thin for the broiler, the pancake batter mixed, the griddle hot, and the coffee steaming. I made a pass as if to kiss him on the cheek, he kept me off with a twenty-inch pointed knife, and I sat down and started the campaign against starvation with the Times propped up in front of me.
Archie and Fritz Brenner

Ты можешь сделать сентиментальной даже таблицу умножения.

девиз мужской половины персонала отдела фондов должен был бы звучать так: «Защити женщину». Или, если бы они захотели выразить это в шести словах, как у фирмы, то: «Защити свою женщину, неважно, чья она».

I surveyed the lot and would have felt genuinely sorry for them if I had known which one to leave out. - Archie Goodwin

When you're plainest you need looking at closest. - Inspector Cramer to Nero Wolfe

He was leaning back in his chair, which was big enough for two but not two of him, - Archie Goodwin on Nero Wolfe

Of course you tell lies and so do I, even to clients when it seems advisable, but you would never lie to me nor I to you in a matter where mutual trust and respect are involved. - Nero Wolfe to Archie Goodwin

Evidently it wasn’t a very amiable conversation, for Cramer’s look at me as I entered was an unfriendly glare, and, since I had done nothing to earn it, it must have been the state of his feelings toward Wolfe. - Archie Goodwin

...one of my favorite rules is never to let a woman start an argument about what she said or what I said. - Archie Goodwin

"...You are wallowing in clover, with hundreds of young women accessible, unguarded, and utterly at your mercy.” “I do not,” I said, closing the drawer where I kept the arsenal and getting to my feet, “like clover.”
Wolfe gets jealous of Archie

I decided that until you single one out and she gets personal to you, a hundred girls, or a thousand girls, are just a girl. - Archie Goodwin

If I had had a daughter in high school, Stevens was the guy I would have wanted her to ask for directions in a strange neighbourhood after dark. - Archie Goodwin