"Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those……" — Margery Allingham
"Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men."
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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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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience,…
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
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I have the courage of my convictions.
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated…
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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God…
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
— Felix Adler
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I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind…
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do…
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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