All Margaret Halsey Quotes
- 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… All
- Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced. Children
- He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own. Build
- 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… All
- The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. Asking
- The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love. Attitude
- In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. Circumstances
- The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality Actually Mean
- Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence. Manageable
- 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… Direction
- What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it. Funny
- The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents. Competitors
- Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife. Beautiful
- Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls. Balls
- Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity. Been
- 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… Almost Every
- 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… English
- Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. Affection
- Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up. Boredom
- 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… Appears
- The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part. Actor
- An overripe banana, yellow outside, squishy in Banana