Margaret Halsey Quotes

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• Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at…
• Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
• He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.
• Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter…
• The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
• The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
• In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
• The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
• Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
• The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind…
• What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.
• The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
• Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
• Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
• Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
• If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline…
• I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it…
• Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.
• Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
• He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns…

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