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One Quotes by Margery Allingham
- 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…
- 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 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
- 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…
- Waiting is one of the great arts.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare