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
anger doe emotion
Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.
employed floor hang iron measure police remarkable rope shreds swear weave
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the interstices of floor boards, on the iron of a heel, and can measure it and swear to it and weave it into a rope to hang a man.
sex ugly clear
Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.
sex
It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.
disappointment spring optimistic
It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.
silly heart men
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.
rose rooms
She rose and followed her bust from the room.
littles century
It was a little skirmish across a century.
optimism healthy mind
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
giving modern shock
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.
alcohol perception devil
Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.
deception goats deceit
the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.
doctors tick mechanic
Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
falling-in-love selfish people
The nicest people fall in love indiscriminately ... while under the influence of that pre-eminently selfish lunacy they may make the most outrageous demands upon their friends with no other excuse than their painful need.