Margery Allingham Quotes

"Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man."
- Margery Allingham
(Related: Blood, Man, Police, Remarkable)

"If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance."
- Margery Allingham
(Related: Attention)

"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."
- Margery Allingham
(Related: Nature, People, Needs)

"Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust."
- Margery Allingham
(Related: Mourning)

"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?"
- Margery Allingham
(Related: May, Tea)

"The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable."
- Margery Allingham
(Related: Optimism, Mind)