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As I see it, the word "private" is going plumb out of date.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