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
optimism healthy mind
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
happiness men self
Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
mistake fall views
But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.
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.
lying writing eight
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.
blessed people needs
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
mean common-sense process
The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.