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
sex heart beats
Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.
humor band traitor
Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.
brother nice apology
Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.
people murder
There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
writing four sound
I write every paragraph four times - 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 had only just thought of it.
years ridiculous charming
Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.
art waiting self-control
Waiting is one of the great arts.
quality nuisance attention
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
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.
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.