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7 quotes by Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham Born Margery Louise Allingham (1904-05-20)20 May 1904 Ealing, London, UK Died 30 June 1966(1966-06-30) (aged 62) Colchester, Essex, England, UK Occupation Novelist Genre mystery, crime fiction Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English writer of detective fiction, best remembered for her "golden age" stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.
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Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from... →

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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... →

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

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The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

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Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

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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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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... →

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