Margery Allingham Quotes

Margery Louise Allingham was an English writer of detective fiction, best remembered for her "golden age" stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.

✵ 20. May 1904 – 30. June 1966  •  Other names Margery Allinghamová, مارجری الینقهام

Works

The Fashion in Shrouds

The Fashion in Shrouds

Margery Allingham

The Fashion in Shrouds

The Fashion in Shrouds

Margery Allingham

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Famous Margery Allingham Quotes

“She rose and followed her bust from the room.”

Margery Allingham

“There is something very good in pride of race if you can be satisfied in your heart it is absolutely genuine and is based on things you have see, heard and felt rather than on those you have read.”

Margery Allingham

The Oaken Heart

“Our ideal is the statesman who knows and loves his country and who never makes the mistake of underestimating his employer, either in intelligence or strength.”

Margery Allingham

The Oaken Heart

“A quotation's only a short neat way of sayin' somethin' everybody knows, like "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide."”

Margery Allingham book The Fashion in Shrouds

Italics in original
The Fashion in Shrouds, New York: Felony & Mayhem, 2008, chapter six, p. 58 (Originally published in 1938)
In standard English the italicized text means, "It's crazy to give a policeman the bribe in counterfeit money." It was popularized as a nonsense catchphrase by Mad magazine.
Fiction Writings

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

Margery Allingham

‘Flowers for the Judge’ (1936) ch. 4.
Fiction Writings

“What attracted me the most of all to the detective story, was the protective covering offered to the author.”

Margery Allingham

The Oaken Heart

Margery Allingham Quotes about time

“To be free takes a lot of time and trouble.”

Margery Allingham

The Oaken Heart

“There were times when I wished I had been 'prenticed to a different trade. I was putting in seven hours a day on it. It was an odd life I was always hoping that the end of one thriller would not overtake me before I had finished the other.”

Margery Allingham

The Oaken Heart

“As a nation, we English will fight and die for principles we cannot find time to teach in our free schools.”

Margery Allingham

The Oaken Heart

Margery Allingham Quotes

“Telling the truth is the basis of all classic art.”

Margery Allingham

from Introduction
The Oaken Heart

“Courage is not herself enough. She cannot stand alone. She is a part, not a whole, a wife, not a man and wife. A well appreciated helpmeet.”

Margery Allingham

The Oaken Heart

“We, me and thee and the parson and all the other lads in the village constitute the public, and the politicians are our servants.”

Margery Allingham

The Oaken Heart

“The unity of instinct and the universal belief in freedom for the individual which id the backbone of democracy is a very real thing in Britain today. We are not only fighting for it, it is our greatest weapon.”

Margery Allingham

The Oaken Heart

“Few people can see God, and it seems an even bolder mind to see the Devil. Active evil is more incomprehensible than active good, and so it ought to be.”

Margery Allingham

The Oaken Heart

“What a period. What an age to have been alive in. Oh thank God I was born when I was.”

Margery Allingham

The Oaken Heart - the story of an English Village - Michael Joseph 1941 ISBN 095108562X
The Oaken Heart

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