Troppe donne

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

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».

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