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

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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's Popular Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

- 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