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Margery Allingham was an English writer renowned for her detective novels. Her works are known for their complex plots and vivid characters, significantly influencing the development of detective fiction.

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Famous Margery Allingham Quotes

“There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.”

Thinking Men Kind Two Rounds Miserable Dentist

Author:Margery Allingham

“One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.”

May Two Law Law Enforcement Policemen

Book:The Allingham Case-book

Source: The Allingham Case-book

“the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye to eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously become friends and were proud each of the other's remarkable dissimilarity to himself.”

Ifs Men Two Eye Results Saws Dog Proud Miracle Harmony Fishes Unexpected Remarkable Mutual Comprehension Mutual Respect Cordiality

Book:The Tiger in the Smoke

Source: The Tiger in the Smoke

“He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.”

Knows Two Process Quiet Instinct Intuition Conclusion Glorious Decent Logical Flash Halfway Deductions

Book:Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, and The Case of the Late Pig

Source: Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, and The Case of the Late Pig

“But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.”

People Knows Two Fall Views Mistake Rounds Point Of View Conclusion Observing Pitfalls

Book:Dancers in Mourning

Source: Dancers in Mourning

About the Author

Born: May 20, 1904
Died: June 30, 1966
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 41

Books & Sources

Crime and Mr. CampionRelated source material

The Tiger in the SmokeRelated source material

Three Cases for Mr. CampionRelated source material

Dancers in MourningRelated source material

Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, and The Case of the Late PigRelated source material

No Love LostRelated source material

Police at the FuneralRelated source material

The Allingham Case-bookRelated source material

The Fashion in ShroudsRelated source material

The GalantrysRelated source material

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