"The process of elimination, combined with a modicum……" — Margery Allingham
"The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it."
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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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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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