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.
It was a little skirmish across a century. - Margery Allingham
It was a little skirmish across a century.
- Margery Allingham
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
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
People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change. - Margery Allingham
People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.
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
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?
Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy. - Margery Allingham
Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.
Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore… - Margery Allingham
Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore…
Waiting is one of the great arts. - Margery Allingham
Waiting is one of the great arts.
Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear. - Margery Allingham
Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.
the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat. - Margery Allingham
the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.
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