The Case of the Late Pig Quotes

“We chatted for some moments, and Janet joined us, and it was not until some minutes later that I became aware of someone hating me.

It is one of those odd but unmistakable sensations one experiences Sometimes on buses or at private dinners, and I looked across the table to observe a young cleric whom I had never seen before regarding me with honest hostility.”
― Margery Allingham, The Case of the Late Pig

“Consider, o consider the lowly mole. His small hands are sore and his snout bleedeth.”
― Margery Allingham, The Case of the Late Pig

“The main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story.”
― Margery Allingham, The Case of the Late Pig

“Vagueness is not so much his characteristic as his entity. I don’t know what he looks like, except that presumably he has a face, since it would be an omission that I should have been certain to observe”
― Margery Allingham, The Case of the Late Pig