I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away. - Margaret Halsey Quotes
I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away. Margaret Halsey
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The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. - Margaret Halsey Quotes

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

Margaret Halsey

 American Author Anger
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 people's characters - Margaret Halsey Quotes

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 people's characters

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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity - Margaret Halsey Quotes

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

Margaret Halsey

 
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 - Margaret Halsey Quotes

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

Margaret Halsey

 
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. - Margaret Halsey Quotes

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.

Margaret Halsey

 American Author Profession
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. - Margaret Halsey Quotes

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

Margaret Halsey

 American Author Circumstances
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence. - Margaret Halsey Quotes

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

Margaret Halsey

 American Author Silence
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. - Margaret Halsey Quotes

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

Margaret Halsey

 Life
The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part. - Margaret Halsey Quotes

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

Margaret Halsey

 Acting And Actors American Author
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. - Margaret Halsey Quotes

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.

Margaret Halsey

 Colleges And Universities
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