Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
Margery AllinghamI believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.
Margery AllinghamOutrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.
Margery Allingham