Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

- 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…

- 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

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

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

- Margery Allingham

Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.

- Margery Allingham

It was a little skirmish across a century.

- Margery Allingham

Waiting is one of the great arts.

- Margery Allingham

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

- Margery Allingham