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?
About Margery Allingham
Margery Louise Allinghamwas an English novelist from the “Golden Age of Detective Fiction”, and considered one of its four “Queens of Crime”, alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.
Allingham is best remembered for her hero, the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.
More quotes from Margery Allingham
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.
English writer of detective fiction, editor
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
English writer of detective fiction, editor
If one cannot command attention by one’s admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
English writer of detective fiction, editor
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
English writer of detective fiction, editor
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
English writer of detective fiction, editor
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.
English writer of detective fiction, editor
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?
English writer of detective fiction, editor