"It was a little skirmish across a century." — Margery Allingham
"It was a little skirmish across a century."
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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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A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock…
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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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More Across Quotes
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
— Margaret Atwood
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
— Margaret Atwood
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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest…
— Joe Baca
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A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side -…
— Drew Barrymore
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
— Melody Beattie
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of…
— Bob Beauprez
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
— James Belushi
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
— John Berger
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
— Daniel Berrigan
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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
— Theodor Adorno
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But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and…
— Julie Bishop
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