Top 51 Margery Allingham Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
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#3. as might have been expected, in the dinner-jacket he had worn on the previous evening. His explanation was characteristic. 'Most extraordinary,' he said, in his slightly high-pitched voice.
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#5. This estate is called a Phoenix. It's not a municipal venture, it's a social rebirth, a statement of a sincere belief that decent conditions make a decent community, and I'm
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#6. Miss Huntingforest beamed at them. 'If you can eat cakes at eleven o'clock in the morning you're all right,' she said. 'It's an acid test, in my opinion. If a man can eat two cookies before noon and enjoy them there's not much wrong with him.
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#8. Meanwhile Crumb Street, never a place of beauty, that afternoon was at its worst. The fog slopped over its low houses like a bucketful of cold soup over a row of dirty stoves. The
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#9. 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.
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#10. I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.
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#11. A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.
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#13. People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.
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#14. It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.
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#15. Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.
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#16. 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.
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#17. There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
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#18. I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.
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#19. Most oddly he was not frightened. That alone he had learned from experience. With the danger would come the courage.
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#20. 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.
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#21. If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
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#22. It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.
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#24. Consider, o consider the lowly mole. His small hands are sore and his snout bleedeth.
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#25. The old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.
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#26. Lying wastes more time than anything else in the modern world.
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#27. This is not even the stuff dictators are made of, but this is the kind of madness which is often not found out until it is too late.' Campion
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#28. 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?
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#29. 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.
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#31. Mr. Campion felt that among the ordeals by fire and by water there should now be numbered the ordeal by dinner at Socrates Close.
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#33. Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.
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#34. Only the most pleasant characters in this book are portraits of living people and the events here recorded unfortunately never took place.
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#35. A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
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#36. Women are terribly shocking to men, my dear. Don't understand them. Like them. It saves such a lot of hurting one way and the other.
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#38. Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.
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#39. The nicest people fall in love indiscriminately ... while under the influence of that pre-eminently selfish lunacy they may make the most outrageous demands upon their friends with no other excuse than their painful need.
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#40. Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
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#41. Albert Campion: 'I'm serious!'
Lugg: 'That's unhealthy in itself.
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#42. 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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#45. No.' He spoke with a tenderness unexpected in him. 'No, lady, no. Put that clean out of your mind. That dear chap and his dog have gone, gone where the dear chaps do go, gone with a few I knew. You've got your own life and you go and live it and make a do of it, as no doubt he'd like you to. Now
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#46. All about him stretched the lush green countryside in which there were to every acre a thousand hiding-places, deep and wide and quiet enough to hold so small and worthless a thing as a single unit of mortal clay. I
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#47. There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.
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#48. As I see it, the word "private" is going plumb out of date. It's goin' to be an ole-fashioned concep', mark my words. That's a prophecy.
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#50. In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade,
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#51. There were at least four people who realized that Inspector Stanislaus Oates, only lately promoted to the Big Five, was being followed down High Holborn by the short, squat, shabby man who yet bore the elusive air of a forgotten culture about him.
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