Quote

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

Margaret Halsey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Adults
Attained
Side
Infant
Sides
Note
Enjoyment
Envy
Degree
Infants
Notes
Receptive
Degrees
Jerusalem

More quotes by Margaret Halsey

Image
... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
Margaret Halsey
Image
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
Margaret Halsey
Image
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.
Margaret Halsey
Image
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey
Image
The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
Margaret Halsey
Image
In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
Margaret Halsey
Image
This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
Margaret Halsey
Image
In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
Margaret Halsey
Image
I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
Margaret Halsey
Image
Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
Margaret Halsey
Image
The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.
Margaret Halsey
Image
Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
Margaret Halsey
Image
It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.
Margaret Halsey
Image
My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
Margaret Halsey
Image
you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.
Margaret Halsey
Image
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
Margaret Halsey
Image
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
Image
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.
Margaret Halsey
Image
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
Margaret Halsey
Image
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.
Margaret Halsey