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Quotes from The Oaken Heart — Margery Allingham

1904–1966

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10 quotes

Telling the truth is the basis of all classic art.

The Oaken Heart (1941)

To be free takes a lot of time and trouble.

The Oaken Heart (1941)

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.

The Oaken Heart (1941)

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

The Oaken Heart (1941)

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

The Oaken Heart (1941)

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

The Oaken Heart (1941)

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.

The Oaken Heart (1941)

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

The Oaken Heart (1941)

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.

The Oaken Heart (1941)

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.

The Oaken Heart (1941)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margery Allingham (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.