Maxioms by Margery Allingham
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the read more
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding read more
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.
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable read more
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything read more
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 have only just thought of it.
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang read more
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.