Margery Allingham

She rose and followed her bust from the room. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#humor

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#crime #detective #murder #death

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

— Margery Allingham

#chemists #employed #hang #into #man

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#attention #cannot #command #least #nuisance

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

#dust #every #forgetting #minute #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

#bricks #drop #everything #kicks #may

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#indefatigable #mind #optimism

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

#blessed #cursed #doing #i #i am