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Love so seldom means happiness.
— Margery Allingham
Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.
— Margery Wilson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.
— Margery Williams
Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can't hold after you get it.
— Margery Wilson
Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do.
— Margery Wilson
The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you.
— Margery Wilson
Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.
— Margery Allingham
But truth, that dangerous commodity, has a way of sticking ...
— Margery Sharp
To be alive is sufficient evidence that we are needed in the world. Otherwise we wouldn't be here.
— Margery Wilson
Weal on his face. 'I'm inclined to agree with you,' he
— Margery Allingham
When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.
— Margery Williams Bianco
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
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
Waiting is one of the great arts.
— Margery Allingham
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
It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.
— Margery Sharp
There is nothing more tedious than a constant round of gaiety.
— Margery Sharp
One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.
— Margery Allingham
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
— 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
It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.
— Margery Allingham
It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.
— Margery Williams
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
In common with most writers, he had evolved his own technique for making bearable the drudgery of his abominable trade,
— Margery Allingham
Most oddly he was not frightened. That alone he had learned from experience. With the danger would come the courage.
— Margery Allingham
There is nothing so intractable as a calendar.
— Margery Sharp
She rose and followed her bust from the room.
— 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
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
Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.
— 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
Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.
— Philippa Gregory
People make life. The more people, the more life.
— Margery Wilson
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
Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.
— Margery Wilson
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
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
[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
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
So few people can think and talk at the same time.
— Margery Wilson
Albert Campion: 'I'm serious!'
Lugg: 'That's unhealthy in itself. — Margery Allingham
Lugg: 'That's unhealthy in itself. — Margery Allingham
It was a little skirmish across a century.
— Margery Allingham
A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
— Margery Allingham
All life is a delusion of the senses.
— Margery Wilson