Margaret Halsey

The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries…

— Margaret Halsey

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to…

— Margaret Halsey

The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each…

— Margaret Halsey

The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just…

— Margaret Halsey

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

— Margaret Halsey

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications…

— Margaret Halsey

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

— Margaret Halsey

prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put…

— Margaret Halsey

“The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is…

— Margaret Halsey

A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it.…

— Margaret Halsey

in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and…

— Margaret Halsey

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

— Margaret Halsey

The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of…

— Margaret Halsey

There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single…

— Margaret Halsey

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

— Margaret Halsey

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

— Margaret Halsey

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

— Margaret Halsey

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

— Margaret Halsey

Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is.…

— Margaret Halsey

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

— Margaret Halsey

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

— Margaret Halsey

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and…

— Margaret Halsey

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they…

— Margaret Halsey

As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right.…

— Margaret Halsey

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and…

— Margaret Halsey