Margery Allingham Quotes

I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing ...

Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a ...

The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive...

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivi...

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by obse...

However carefully a judge is protected by the experience and the logic of the law, there must be tim...

Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something pe...

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impr...

Waiting is one of the great arts.

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crim...