Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
Margaret Halsey
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Dark
Umbrella
Soup
Culinary
Utterly
Thin
Cooking
Stand
Drained
Food
Tasted
More quotes by Margaret Halsey
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
Margaret Halsey
The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
Margaret Halsey
In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
Margaret Halsey
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
Margaret Halsey
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.
Margaret Halsey
the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
Margaret Halsey
when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
Margaret Halsey
A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.
Margaret Halsey
In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
Margaret Halsey
From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
Margaret Halsey
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.
Margaret Halsey
I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
Margaret Halsey
My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
Margaret Halsey
... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
Margaret Halsey
In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
Margaret Halsey
it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
Margaret Halsey
the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
Margaret Halsey
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.
Margaret Halsey
people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.
Margaret Halsey
I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12 x 8 black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.
Margaret Halsey
