Dancers in Mourning Quotes

“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, Dancers in Mourning

“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, Dancers in Mourning

“The wooden armchair in which he lay had been designed by a man with definite but erroneous ideas concerning the human form, and he was peculiarly uncomfortable.”
― Margery Allingham, Dancers in Mourning

“But a worm like that…turns my stomach over, don’t mind tellin’ you. Golden curls…!”
― Margery Allingham, Dancers in Mourning

“judges of that,”
― Margery Allingham, Dancers in Mourning