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
left meaning seems sound
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 have only just thought of it.
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.
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.
mean luck superstitions
A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
thinking tea may
When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?
two law may
One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.
inspirational passion violent
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
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.
two intuition quiet
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
rose rooms
She rose and followed her bust from the room.