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Margaret Halsey
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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
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Yonkers
New York State
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More quotes by Margaret Halsey
the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
Margaret Halsey
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
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
English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.
Margaret Halsey
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.
Margaret Halsey
We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
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
I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
Margaret Halsey
In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
Margaret Halsey
Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
Margaret Halsey
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
Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.
Margaret Halsey
I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
Margaret Halsey
the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
Margaret Halsey
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
Margaret Halsey
The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
Margaret Halsey
Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
Margaret Halsey
The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
Margaret Halsey
when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
Margaret Halsey
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.
Margaret Halsey