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Margery Louise Allinghamová, nepřechýleně Margery Louise Allingham byla anglická detektivní spisovatelka narozená v Londýně, která vydala mnoho novel, krátkých příběhů a her, hlavně v kriminálním žánru. Nejznámější byla jako tvůrce detektiva/dobrodruha Alberta Campiona. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. květen 1904 – 30. červen 1966   •   Další jména Margery Allinghamová, مارجری الینقهام
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Margery Allingham citáty a výroky

Margery Allingham citát: „Samolibost je pocit lidí, kteří sdílejí šťastné přesvědčení, že nejsou jako ti ostatní.“

„Samolibost je pocit lidí, kteří sdílejí šťastné přesvědčení, že nejsou jako ti ostatní.“

Margery Allingham
O lidech , O pocitech

Margery Allingham: Citáty anglicky

“There is something very good in pride of race if you can be satisfied in your heart it is absolutely genuine and is based on things you have see, heard and felt rather than on those you have read.”

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The Oaken Heart

“There were times when I wished I had been 'prenticed to a different trade. I was putting in seven hours a day on it. It was an odd life I was always hoping that the end of one thriller would not overtake me before I had finished the other.”

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The Oaken Heart

“Courage is not herself enough. She cannot stand alone. She is a part, not a whole, a wife, not a man and wife. A well appreciated helpmeet.”

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The Oaken Heart

“We, me and thee and the parson and all the other lads in the village constitute the public, and the politicians are our servants.”

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The Oaken Heart

“What attracted me the most of all to the detective story, was the protective covering offered to the author.”

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The Oaken Heart

“A quotation's only a short neat way of sayin' somethin' everybody knows, like "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide."”

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Margery Allingham kniha The Fashion in Shrouds

Italics in original
The Fashion in Shrouds, New York: Felony & Mayhem, 2008, chapter six, p. 58 (Originally published in 1938)
In standard English the italicized text means, "It's crazy to give a policeman the bribe in counterfeit money." It was popularized as a nonsense catchphrase by Mad magazine.
Fiction Writings

“Our ideal is the statesman who knows and loves his country and who never makes the mistake of underestimating his employer, either in intelligence or strength.”

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The Oaken Heart

“Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.”

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Margery Allingham

‘Flowers for the Judge’ (1936) ch. 4.
Fiction Writings

“The unity of instinct and the universal belief in freedom for the individual which id the backbone of democracy is a very real thing in Britain today. We are not only fighting for it, it is our greatest weapon.”

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The Oaken Heart

“Few people can see God, and it seems an even bolder mind to see the Devil. Active evil is more incomprehensible than active good, and so it ought to be.”

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The Oaken Heart

“As a nation, we English will fight and die for principles we cannot find time to teach in our free schools.”

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The Oaken Heart

“What a period. What an age to have been alive in. Oh thank God I was born when I was.”

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The Oaken Heart - the story of an English Village - Michael Joseph 1941 ISBN 095108562X
The Oaken Heart

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