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
people prejudice scrutiny
Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone ...
long people prejudice
The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.
hands giving disease
prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.
beautiful stupid wife
Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
stress one-direction mobility
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 of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
thinking silence sound
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
giving people waste
it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
defeated refusal circumstances
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
attitude english-history insulting
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
insulting dinner faces
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
sarcastic careers stomach
He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.
children justice democracy
Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
class play people
Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
funny dog fall
Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.