Margaret Halsey
Margaret Halsey
Margaret Halseywas an American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book With Malice Towards Somegrew 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
envy jerusalem sides
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
business race people
American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.
sex business roles
In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
business emotional scarcity
In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
business successful training
The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.
children business large-groups
A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives ...
business children maturity
children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.
children business people
the position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves ...
children men justice
It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one's own children have for a life of meaning and purpose.
daughter people childhood
in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.
humorous twenties four
Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.
ideas years next
this year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth ...
people generations rising
I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
tolerance way assuming
Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.