Citas de Margery Allingham

• El luto no es olvido... Es un deshacer. Hay que desatar cada diminuto lazo y recuperar y asimilar del polvo algo permanente y valioso.

  Margery Allingham

  Sad, Dust, Ties

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• I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.

  Margery Allingham

  Writing, Sound, Four

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

  Margery Allingham

  Change, People, May

  Margery Allingham (2013). “No Love Lost”, p.103, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Esperar es una de las grandes artes.

  Margery Allingham

  Art, Waiting, Self Control

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.35, Ipso Books

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• If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

  Margery Allingham

  Quality, Nuisance, Attention

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• Love so seldom means happiness.

  Margery Allingham

  Media

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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• Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

  Margery Allingham

  Humor, Band, Traitor

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• The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

  Margery Allingham

  Optimism, Healthy, Mind

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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

  Margery Allingham

  Law, Two, May

  Margery Allingham (1969). “The Allingham Case-book”

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• Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

  Margery Allingham

  Doctors, Tick, Pleasure

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• Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

  Margery Allingham

  Anger, Doe, Emotion

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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• Las personas más agradables se enamoran indiscriminadamente... mientras que bajo la influencia de esa locura preeminentemente egoísta pueden hacer las demandas más escandalosas a sus amigos sin otra excusa que su dolorosa necesidad.

  Margery Allingham

  Falling In Love, Selfish, People

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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• I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.

  Margery Allingham

  Madre, Hijos, Creer

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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

  Mean, Common Sense, Elimination

  Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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• 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.

  Margery Allingham

  Error, Caída, Vistas

  Margery Allingham (2015). “Dancers in Mourning”, p.31, Ipso Books

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• La infatuación es una de esas enfermedades ligeramente cómicas que son a la vez tan indignas y tan dolorosas que un mundo de buenas intenciones hace todo lo posible por ignorar su existencia por completo, refiriéndose a ellas sólo bajo provocación y luego con disculpas, pero, al igual que su hermano más material, este forúnculo en el cuello del espíritu difícilmente puede ser olvidado ni por el que lo sufre ni por nadie de su entorno. La enfermedad es ridícula, triste, insoportable y, sobre todo, diagnosticable al instante.

  Margery Allingham

  Brother, Nice, Apology

  Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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• There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

  Margery Allingham

  People, Murder

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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

  Margery Allingham

  Sex, Heart, Beats

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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

  Years, Ridiculous, Charming

  Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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• When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.

  Margery Allingham

  Lying, Writing, Eight

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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• 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.

  Margery Allingham

  Dog, Eye, Men

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.26, Ipso Books

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• Sólo hay dos clases de hombres que se hacen dentistas. Los que les encanta y los que se vuelven desgraciados. Piénsalo bien y verás que tengo razón.

  Margery Allingham

  Thinking, Men, Two

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

  Margery Allingham

  Deception, Deceit, Goats

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.85, Ipso Books

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• 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.

  Margery Allingham

  Two, Intuition, Quiet

  Margery Allingham (2016). “Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, and The Case of the Late Pig”, p.120, Ipso Books

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• It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.

  Margery Allingham

  Silly, Heart, Men

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