Top 97 Quotes About Margery
#1. It's for Carson. (Margery)
And I repeat what I said. Just what I need, a bunch of drunk fucks working on me. Remind me not to do anything stupid tonight. Oh wait, I'm here. Too late for that warning, huh? (Fury)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love.
Laurie R. King
#5. Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
Margery Allingham
#7. Albert Campion: 'I'm serious!'
Lugg: 'That's unhealthy in itself.
Margery Allingham
#8. Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
Margery Allingham
#9. 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
#10. Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.
Margery Fish
#11. Time is a friend - perhaps the best one we shall ever have ... Time is a now - and there is only now. Memories look backward. Hope looks ahead. But there is in reality only now.
Margery Wilson
#12. If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.
Margery Wilson
#13. 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
#14. They're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner.
Margery Wilson
#16. Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.
Margery Fish
#17. 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
#18. A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
Margery Allingham
#19. Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.
Margery Wilson
#20. Only the most pleasant characters in this book are portraits of living people and the events here recorded unfortunately never took place.
Margery Allingham
#21. Youth is always a little offended to find itself not preferred: it cannot help feeling that when it admits the old to its society, it confers a benefit.
Margery Sharp
#22. Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.
Margery Allingham
#24. 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
#25. Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.
Philippa Gregory
#26. Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.
Margery Wilson
#27. A diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it.
Margery Wilson
#28. People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People adore the one who encourages them to display their conversational wares and admires the display.
Margery Wilson
#30. 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
#31. I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband often told with amusement how a cousin when asked when he expected to finish his garden replied 'Never, I hope'. And that, I think, applies to all true gardeners.
Margery Fish
#32. You can never be free from limitation until you are willing to recognize that you and you alone are responsible for what you are. After you have passed infancy you are not a victim of anything but your own thinking.
Margery Wilson
#33. In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade,
Margery Allingham
#35. But the thing that ... that I touched ... " I cried. "It was furry! It-" I stopped short, taken with a shudder. "I know," said Herrick.
Margery Williams
#36. Meself I like a breath of air before I go to bed, same as I like a bite o' cheese or something before I take me teeth out.
Margery Sharp
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. There is nothing more tedious than a constant round of gaiety.
Margery Sharp
#40. The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you.
Margery Wilson
#41. He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.
Margery Williams
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn't the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known and used.
Margery Wilson
#45. The house, while sound in wind and limb, was described as being of 'no character.' We didn't think then that it had anything but character, rather sinister perhaps, but definitely character.
Margery Fish
#46. No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.
Margery Wilson
#48. Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood like itself.
Margery Wilson
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.
Margery Allingham
#53. 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
#54. Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.
Margery Williams
#55. It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.
Margery Sharp
#56. The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members.
Margery Wilson
#57. People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.
Margery Allingham
#59. 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
#60. It is always a great pleasure, and surprise, when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special treasure.
Margery Fish
#61. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.
Margery Williams
#62. There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
Margery Allingham
#63. 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
#64. To be alive is sufficient evidence that we are needed in the world. Otherwise we wouldn't be here.
Margery Wilson
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#70. 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
#71. Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
Margery Allingham
#72. 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
#73. I have never regretted our foolhardiness. Of course, we made mistakes, endless mistakes, but at least they were our own, just as the garden was our own.
Margery Fish
#74. Consider, o consider the lowly mole. His small hands are sore and his snout bleedeth.
Margery Allingham
#75. 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
#76. But truth, that dangerous commodity, has a way of sticking ...
Margery Sharp
#77. So few people can think and talk at the same time.
Margery Wilson
#78. 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
#79. Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do.
Margery Wilson
#81. Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can't hold after you get it.
Margery Wilson
#82. Lying wastes more time than anything else in the modern world.
Margery Allingham
#83. Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.
Philippa Gregory
#84. [O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit
Margery Williams
#85. The old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.
Margery Allingham
#86. 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
#88. 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
#89. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad. He wished that he could become it without these
Margery Williams
#90. If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Margery Allingham
#91. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.
Margery Williams
#92. Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.
Margery Williams
#93. 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
#94. There is nothing so intractable as a calendar.
Margery Sharp
#95. Life pulls at bewildered humanity in so many ways! Blessed is the woman who makes her life a career of stimulating the courage of others.
Margery Wilson
#96. Most oddly he was not frightened. That alone he had learned from experience. With the danger would come the courage.
Margery Allingham
#97. 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
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