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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

Love so seldom means happiness. — Margery Allingham

Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this
Than any other thing! — William Allingham

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

Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad. — William Allingham

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Up the well known creek — Margery Allingham

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

I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life. — Henry Allingham

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

As I see it, the word "private" is going plumb out of date.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

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

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

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

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

She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away. — William Allingham

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

Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour. — Henry Allingham

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

Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring
Lies open, writ in blossoms. — William Allingham

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

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

I've only ever kissed one girl: my Dorothy. We met in 1915 and married in 1918. She died in 1970. — Henry Allingham

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

Waiting is one of the great arts. — Margery Allingham

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. — William Allingham

Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little men. — William Allingham

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day. — William Allingham

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

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

One who can see without seeming to see
That's an observer as good as three. — William Allingham

War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway. — Henry Allingham

She rose and followed her bust from the room. — Margery Allingham

The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever. — William Allingham

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

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

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. — Margery Allingham

Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler's dower. — William Allingham

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

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

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

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way! — William Allingham

Autumn's the mellow time. — William Allingham

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

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

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

Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation. — William Allingham

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

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

It was a little skirmish across a century. — Margery Allingham

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