Margaret Halsey Quotes - Page 4

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• ... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.

  Margaret Halsey

  Two, Giving, Likes

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• 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

  Exercise, Boys, Thinking

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• ... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

  Margaret Halsey

  Giving Up, Self, Alcohol

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• Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

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  Trying, Flow

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• Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

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  Children, Justice, Diversity

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

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  Funny, Beautiful, Stupid

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.

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  Sports, Easter, Sex

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

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  Business, Emotional, Scarcity

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• In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

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  Sex, Business, Roles

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.

  Margaret Halsey

  Long, People, Prejudice

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• 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.

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  Long, Sometimes, Wonder

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• 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.

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  Education, Mean, College

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• Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

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  Funny, Dog, Fall

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

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  Vanity, Race, Hands

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Children, Boys, White

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”

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• Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

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  Father, Sleep, Sound

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

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  People, Generations, Rising

  Margaret Halsey (1960). “This Demi-paradise: A Westchester Diary”

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• Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

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  Class, Play, People

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• 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

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Magnificence

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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