Top 83 Quotes About Allingham
#2. Albert Campion: 'I'm serious!'
Lugg: 'That's unhealthy in itself.
Margery Allingham
#3. Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
Margery Allingham
#4. 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.
Margery Allingham
#5. 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.
Margery Allingham
#7. 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.
Margery Allingham
#8. A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
Margery Allingham
#9. If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
William Allingham
#10. Only the most pleasant characters in this book are portraits of living people and the events here recorded unfortunately never took place.
Margery Allingham
#12. Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
Margery Allingham
#13. I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.
Henry Allingham
#14. I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
William Allingham
#15. Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.
Margery Allingham
#17. Mr. Campion felt that among the ordeals by fire and by water there should now be numbered the ordeal by dinner at Socrates Close.
Margery Allingham
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
Margery Allingham
#23. 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.
Margery Allingham
#24. When I was born, the speed limit was two miles an hour. They'd only just repealed the law where a man had to walk in front of every motor car waving a flag.
Henry Allingham
#25. Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring
Lies open, writ in blossoms.
William Allingham
#26. In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade,
Margery Allingham
#28. When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone. The 'unsinkable' ship - but it had gone down so simple.
Henry Allingham
#29. 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.
Margery Allingham
#30. 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.
Margery Allingham
#33. Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little men.
William Allingham
#34. 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
Margery Allingham
#35. 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
Margery Allingham
#36. Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear.
William Allingham
#37. Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.
William Allingham
#38. Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this
Than any other thing!
William Allingham
#39. Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour.
Henry Allingham
#41. By the craggy hill-side,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn-trees
For pleasure here and there.
If any man so daring
As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night.
William Allingham
#43. The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near.
William Allingham
#44. People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.
Margery Allingham
#45. A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful-then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.
William Allingham
#47. 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.
Margery Allingham
#48. Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.
William Allingham
#49. How have I lived so long? I never worried. In the '20s, there were millions of men out of work. You couldn't get a job anywhere. I wasn't worried.
Henry Allingham
#50. Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.
Henry Allingham
#51. 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.
Margery Allingham
#52. 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
#53. 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
Margery Allingham
#54. I've only ever kissed one girl: my Dorothy. We met in 1915 and married in 1918. She died in 1970.
Henry Allingham
#56. 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.
Margery Allingham
#57. 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
Margery Allingham
#58. War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.
Henry Allingham
#60. I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.
Henry Allingham
#61. 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.
Margery Allingham
#62. Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
Margery Allingham
#63. 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.
Margery Allingham
#65. Lying wastes more time than anything else in the modern world.
Margery Allingham
#66. The old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.
Margery Allingham
#67. Consider, o consider the lowly mole. His small hands are sore and his snout bleedeth.
Margery Allingham
#68. Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
William Allingham
#70. One who can see without seeming to see
That's an observer as good as three.
William Allingham
#71. 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.
Margery Allingham
#72. If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Margery Allingham
#73. 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
#74. Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
William Allingham
#75. Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come ... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.
William Allingham
#76. Most oddly he was not frightened. That alone he had learned from experience. With the danger would come the courage.
Margery Allingham
#77. 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.
Margery Allingham
#79. There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
Margery Allingham
#80. 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
#81. Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.
Margery Allingham
#82. 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.
Margery Allingham
#83. Not like Homer would I write,
Not like Dante if I might,
Not like Shakespeare at his best,
Not like Goethe or the rest,
Like myself, however small,
Like myself, or not at all.
William Allingham
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