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.

Margery Allingham

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

Margery Allingham

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Margery Allingham

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.

Margery Allingham

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.

Margery Allingham

She rose and followed her bust from the room.

Margery Allingham

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.

Margery Allingham

Telling the truth is the basis of all classic art.

Margery Allingham

To be free takes a lot of time and trouble.

Margery Allingham

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.

Margery Allingham

What attracted me the most of all to the detective story, was the protective covering offered to the author.

Margery Allingham

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.

Margery Allingham

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.

Margery Allingham

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.

Margery Allingham

As a nation, we English will fight and die for principles we cannot find time to teach in our free schools.

Margery Allingham

What a period. What an age to have been alive in. Oh thank God I was born when I was.

Margery Allingham

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."

Margery Allingham

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.

Margery Allingham

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.

Margery Allingham

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?

Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham

Occupation: English Writer
Born: May 20, 1904
Died: June 30, 1966
Quotes count: 23
Wikipedia: Margery Allingham

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