Margery Allingham Quotes

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• Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and…
• He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but…
• A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the…
• The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of…
• Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
• But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round…
• When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of…
• There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
• Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again…
• I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take…
• I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs…
• If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
• It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.
• Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.
• The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
• When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on…
• Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
• Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the…
• Waiting is one of the great arts.
• I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after…

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