Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham
Margery Louise Allinghamwas an English writer of detective fiction, best remembered for her "golden age" stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth20 May 1889
men thinking two
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.
change people may
People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.
left meaning seems sound
once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I have only just thought of it.
mean
Love so seldom means happiness.
ties dust mourning
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
two intuition quiet
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
thinking tea may
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?
inspirational passion violent
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
mother children believe
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.
men blood police
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
mean luck superstitions
A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
two law may
One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.