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People coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.
— Margaret Halsey
The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
— Margaret Halsey
Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.
— Margaret Halsey
My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
— Margaret Halsey
Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.
— Margaret Halsey
In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
— Margaret Halsey
Being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.
— Margaret Halsey
In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
— Margaret Halsey
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
— Margaret Halsey
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
— 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 real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
— Margaret Halsey
Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any ...
— Margaret Halsey
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
— Margaret Halsey
When I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
— Margaret Halsey
A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased ...
— Margaret Halsey
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
— Margaret Halsey
Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone ...
— Margaret Halsey
Giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.
— Margaret Halsey
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
— Margaret Halsey
He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.
— Margaret Halsey
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.
— Margaret Halsey
I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.
— Margaret Halsey
Example is better than precept.
— Margaret Halsey
It is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
— Margaret Halsey
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
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
— Margaret Halsey
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.
— Margaret Halsey
The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
— Margaret Halsey
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
— Margaret Halsey
This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth ...
— Margaret Halsey
A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man ...
— Margaret Halsey
Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
— Margaret Halsey
In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
— Margaret Halsey
