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# Margaret Halsey

(1910–1997)   Writer   United States

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Margaret Halsey was a writer from the United States, best known for *With Malice toward some*.

## Quick Facts About Margaret Halsey

Born February 13, 1910

Died February 4, 1997

Nationality United States

Profession Writer

Notable works With Malice toward some

## About Margaret Halsey

Margaret Halsey was an American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book With Malice Toward Some (1938) grew out of her experiences there. It was a witty and humorous bestseller, selling 600,000 copies. It won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.

## Awards & Honors

National Book Award

##  Quotes by Margaret Halsey · Page 3

> [American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/american-business-while-it-does-not-frown-on-helping-the-human-race/)

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> [In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/in-a-business-society-the-role-of-sex-can-be-summed-up-in-five/)

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> [ There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours \[the United States\] is the only… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/there-are-other-business-societies-england-holland-belgium-and-france/)

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> [A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/a-business-society-therefore-always-has-in-its-children-a-large-group/)

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> [Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/reality-is-above-all-else-a-variable-and-nobody-is-qualified-to-say/)

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> [From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/from-a-purely-tourist-standpoint-oxford-is-overpowering-being-so/)

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> [Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/americans-i-i-m-afraid-among-them-go-around-carelessly-assuming-they/)

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> [There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/there-are-dozens-of-ways-of-failing-to-make-money-it-is-one-thing-to/)

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> [Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/not-being-one-to-calculate-or-look-ahead-i-had-not-stopped-to-think/)

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> [One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/one-of-the-less-dismaying-aspects-of-race-relations-in-the-united/)

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> [the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/the-whole-flavor-and-quality-of-the-american-representative/)

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> [... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/organized-religion-in-a-dominating-business-society-can-do-only-one/)

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> [The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/the-business-society-is-interested-in-training-its-citizens-to-make/)

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> [prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/prejudice-will-always-exist-so-will-sickness-and-disease-but-that/)

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> [in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/in-the-comparatively-short-time-between-my-childhood-and-my-daughter/)

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> [in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/in-race-relations-the-single-gesture-and-the-single-individual-are/)

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> [The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/the-stress-laid-on-upward-social-mobility-in-the-united-states-has/)

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> [He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/he-has-the-common-feeling-of-his-profession-he-enjoys-a-statement/)

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