Margery Allingham Short Quotes

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The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable...

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Telling the truth is the basis of all classic art.

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Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

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It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.

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Lying wastes more time than anything else in the modern world.

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Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

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The old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

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The pavements looked washed and sticky, like pieces of half-sucked toffee.

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He was resigned and on the whole patient, like a man with a very old illness.

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A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

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Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

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What a period. What an age to have been alive in. Oh thank God I was born when I was.

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It's some damned innocent. Some little head so full of wool it doesn't know it's bleating.

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If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities at least one can be a nuisance.

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

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People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

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As a nation, we English will fight and die for principles we cannot find time to teach in our free schools.

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What attracted me the most of all to the detective story, was the protective covering offered to the author.

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His mistaken belief in his own superiority cut him off from reality as completely as if he were living in a colored glass jar.

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We, me and thee and the parson and all the other lads in the village constitute the public, and the politicians are our servants.

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A quotation's only a short neat way of sayin' somethin' everybody knows, like "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide."

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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.

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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.

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Courage is not herself enough. She cannot stand alone. She is a part, not a whole, a wife, not a man and wife. A well appreciated helpmeet.

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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.

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Mr. Bull revealed a streak of conscious virtue which his acquaintances somewhat naturally discredited instantly from his very insistence upon it.

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Rhoda is the kind of woman who digs up the mint outside her kitchen door two days after she has planted it, to find out if it has started to grow.

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Mrs. Gollie came into Luke's office as if she was hastening to the scene of some terrible personal disaster, or perhaps merely going on the stage.

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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?

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Mayo was anxious to leave and like so many enthusiasts seemed liable to turn a social escape into a jail break if anything threatened to hinder him.

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