Margaret Halsey Quotes

Margaret Halsey — American Author died on December 30, 1997

Margaret Halsey was an American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book With Malice Towards Some grew 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... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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.

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.

Margaret Halsey Quotes

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