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
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.
happiness men self
Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
dog eye men
the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye to eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously become friends and were proud each of the other's remarkable dissimilarity to himself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.