Margery Allingham Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

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.

She rose and followed her bust from the room.

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?

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

It was a little skirmish across a century.

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