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Margery Allingham quotes: Love so seldom means happiness.

Love so seldom means happiness.

Margery Allingham quotes: Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

Margery Allingham quotes: 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?

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 quotes: There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

Margery Allingham quotes: The old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

The old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

Margery Allingham quotes: Consider, o consider the lowly mole. His small hands are sore and his snout bleedeth.

Consider, o consider the lowly mole. His small hands are sore and his snout bleedeth.

Margery Allingham quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Up the well known creek

Up the well known creek

Margery Allingham quotes: 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.

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 quotes: People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

Margery Allingham quotes: Waiting is one of the great arts.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Margery Allingham quotes: Weal on his face. 'I'm inclined to agree with you,' he

Weal on his face. 'I'm inclined to agree with you,' he

Margery Allingham quotes: As I see it, the word "private" is going plumb out of date.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.

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 quotes: Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

Margery Allingham quotes: One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.

One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.

Margery Allingham quotes: Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

Margery Allingham quotes: Lying wastes more time than anything else in the modern world.

Lying wastes more time than anything else in the modern world.

Margery Allingham quotes: Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

Margery Allingham quotes: It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.

It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.

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

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

Margery Allingham quotes: A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

Margery Allingham quotes: It was a little skirmish across a century.

It was a little skirmish across a century.

Margery Allingham quotes: Albert Campion: 'I'm serious!'Lugg: 'That's unhealthy in itself.

Albert Campion: 'I'm serious!'
Lugg: 'That's unhealthy in itself.

Margery Allingham quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Mr. Campion felt that among the ordeals by fire and by water there should now be numbered the ordeal by dinner at Socrates Close.

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 quotes: In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade,

In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade,

Margery Allingham quotes: Only the most pleasant characters in this book are portraits of living people and the events here recorded unfortunately never took place.

Only the most pleasant characters in this book are portraits of living people and the events here recorded unfortunately never took place.

Margery Allingham quotes: Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

Margery Allingham quotes: 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

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 quotes: Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

Margery Allingham quotes: The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Margery Allingham quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: She rose and followed her bust from the room.

She rose and followed her bust from the room.

Margery Allingham quotes: Most oddly he was not frightened. That alone he had learned from experience. With the danger would come the courage.

Most oddly he was not frightened. That alone he had learned from experience. With the danger would come the courage.