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Love so seldom means happiness. — Margery Allingham

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

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

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

Waiting is one of the great arts. — Margery 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As I see it, the word "private" is going plumb out of date.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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. — 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

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

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

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