Quotes by Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham

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

Luck

Mean

Superstitions

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.

Giving

Modern

Shock

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.

Alcohol

Anger

Perception

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.

Fall

Mistake

Views

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

Blood

High Heels

Men

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

Doctors

Pleasure

Tick

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.

Intuition

Quiet

Two

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

Blessed

Nature

People

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.

Believe

Children

Mother

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.

Four

Sound

Writing

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Band

Beats

Believe

Blessed

Blood

Brother

Century

Change

Charming

Children

Clear

Common Sense

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Deception

Disappointment

Doctors

Doe

Dog

Dust

Eight

Elimination

Emotion

Eye

Fall

Falling In Love

Four

Giving

Goats

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Healthy

Heart

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Quotes by Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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