Margaret Halsey Short Quotes

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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth...

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The role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

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Being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

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It is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

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What I know about money, I learned the hard way — by having had it.

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

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The conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

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Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

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

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They... talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

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In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

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The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

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An omelet so light we had to lay our knives across it and even then it struggled.

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

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When I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.

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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

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The adjuration to 'Be realistic' merely means 'Agree with me, and think the way I think.'

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

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You could, without arousing a storm of protest, have described us as rather a dull couple.

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Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

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A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

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Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

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That's the trouble with hitching your wagon to a star — nothing happens when you say, 'Giddyap!'

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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

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The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

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When she gets excited, her voice rises to a pitch generally considered suitable only for hog-calling.

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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

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I suppose you can't have everything, though my instinctive response to this sentiment is always, 'Why not?'

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