"A great deal has been written about the……" — 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 the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern."
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Margery Allingham
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23 Quotes by Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham has 23 quotes on this site.
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Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of…
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding…
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The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct…
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Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang…
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But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls…
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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work…
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There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
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Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years…
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I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have…
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I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I…
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If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
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It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.
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