Quotes by : Margery Allingham

Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent....

I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that....

Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few....

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive....

Waiting is one of the great arts.

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes....

However carefully a judge is protected by the experience and the logic of the law, there must be times....

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive....

When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity....