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Margaret Halsey Quotes

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What I know about money, I learned the hard way ” by having had it  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) Example is better than precept  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) My knees could have been stirred with a spoon  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) Being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) 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 Quotes) As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) In the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter’s, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man ...  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn’t have been more surprised and pleased ...  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) Father’s snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) The conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) It is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own  (Margaret Halsey Quotes) 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 Quotes)
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