Margery Allingham quotes

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear. (Margery Allingham)
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. View quote
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If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance. View quote
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The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. View quote
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. View quote
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I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it. View quote
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She rose and followed her bust from the room. View quote
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There is something very good in pride of race if you can be satisfied in your heart it is absolutely genuine and is based on things you have see, heard and felt rather than on those you have read. View quote
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Telling the truth is the basis of all classic art. View quote
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To be free takes a lot of time and trouble. View quote
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Courage is not herself enough. She cannot stand alone. She is a part, not a whole, a wife, not a man and wife. A well appreciated helpmeet. (Margery Allingham)
We, me and thee and the parson and all the other lads in the village constitute the public, and the politicians are our servants. View quote
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What attracted me the most of all to the detective story, was the protective covering offered to the author. View quote
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Our ideal is the statesman who knows and loves his country and who never makes the mistake of underestimating his employer, either in intelligence or strength. View quote
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The unity of instinct and the universal belief in freedom for the individual which id the backbone of democracy is a very real thing in Britain today. We are not only fighting for it, it is our greatest weapon. View quote
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Few people can see God, and it seems an even bolder mind to see the Devil. Active evil is more incomprehensible than active good, and so it ought to be. View quote
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As a nation, we English will fight and die for principles we cannot find time to teach in our free schools. View quote
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What a period. What an age to have been alive in. Oh thank God I was born when I was. View quote
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A quotation's only a short neat way of sayin' somethin' everybody knows, like "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide." View quote
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There were times when I wished I had been 'prenticed to a different trade. I was putting in seven hours a day on it. It was an odd life I was always hoping that the end of one thriller would not overtake me before I had finished the other. View quote
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Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man. (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 amongst us. View quote
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When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think? View quote
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