A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
