... 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.
Margaret HalseyEnglish life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.
Margaret HalseyThe soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
Margaret HalseyReality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
Margaret Halseydemocracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
Margaret HalseyThere are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.
Margaret Halsey