Margaret Halsey
Margaret Halsey
Margaret Halseywas an American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book With Malice Towards Somegrew out of her experiences there. It was a witty and humorous bestseller, selling 600,000 copies. It won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
father sleep vacuums
Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
people generations rising
I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
tolerance way assuming
Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.
military civilization republic
Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.
produce proof ennui
... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
long wonder surprise
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.
people doe affection
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.
dark soup culinary
The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
communication perfection tides
We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
patterns liquor employed
Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns ...
education mean college
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.
sarcastic careers stomach
He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.
insulting dinner faces
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
attitude english-history insulting
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.