“The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.”
“The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.”
Margery Allingham
“Waiting is one of the great arts.”
Margery Allingham“I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.”
Margery Allingham“The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.”
Margery Allingham“When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.”
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.”
Margery Allingham“However carefully a judge is protected by the experience and the logic of the law, there must be times -not many, I know, or we should have no judges- when the same frightful question must be answered. Not faced, you see, but answered. Every now and again he must have to say to himself, in effect, "Everyone agrees that this colour is black, and my reason tells me it is so, but on my soul, do I know?”
Margery Allingham“Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.”
Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds“There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.”
Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost“There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.”
Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds“The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.”
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