Margery Allingham

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.