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
real doe action
The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
thinking gentleman world
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
dark soup culinary
The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
thinking boredom vistas
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
people doe affection
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.
long wonder surprise
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 up long enough to get a plate under it.
education mean college
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 except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.
mean reality ideas
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
competition quality clock
the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.
art creativity dedication
The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.
commitment reality variables
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 of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
motivation important humans
The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
way hard knows
What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.