Quote

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

Margery Allingham

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Margery Allingham
Age: 61 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 1
Died: 1966
Died: January 1
Editor
Novelist
Writer
Margery Louise Allingham
Maxwell March
Margery Allingham
Never
People
Modify
Alter
Enormous
Difficulty
Change
May
Really

More quotes by Margery Allingham

Image
It was a little skirmish across a century.
Margery Allingham
Image
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.
Margery Allingham
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.
Margery Allingham
Image
Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.
Margery Allingham
Image
Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.
Margery Allingham
Image
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
Image
Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.
Margery Allingham
Image
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.
Margery Allingham
Image
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.
Margery Allingham
Image
It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.
Margery Allingham
Image
Waiting is one of the great arts.
Margery Allingham
Image
She rose and followed her bust from the room.
Margery Allingham
Image
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
Margery Allingham
Image
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
Image
It is always difficult to escape from youth its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.
Margery Allingham