Quotes by Margaret Halsey

“Humility is not my forte, and 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 peoples characters”

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

“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”

“He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.”

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

“Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.”

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

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

“The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.”

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

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.

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

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 peoples characters.