Margery Allingham ( 10 of 11 )
When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that read more
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?
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst 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.
In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had read more
In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all he had, like a man passing a ball in a game.
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.
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.
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in read more
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the interstices of floor boards, on the iron of a heel, and can measure it and swear to it and weave it into a rope to hang a man.
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.
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.
