A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.
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.
- Margery Allingham
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…
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?
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
It was a little skirmish across a century. - Margery Allingham
It was a little skirmish across a century.
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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