Alcohol Quote by Margery Allingham

Waiting is one of the great arts.

— Margery Allingham

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

— Margery Allingham

One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.

— Margery Allingham

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

— Margery Allingham

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent…

— Margery Allingham

“THE main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story.…

— Margery Allingham

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…

— Margery Allingham

It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of…

— Margery Allingham

the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by…

— Margery Allingham

“No.' He spoke with a tenderness unexpected in him. 'No, lady, no. Put that clean out of your mind. That dear chap and his…

— Margery Allingham

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which…

— Margery Allingham

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

— Margery Allingham