The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
Margaret Halseypeople 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 HalseyDemocracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.
Margaret HalseyIt is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.
Margaret HalseyLife itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
Margaret HalseyIf 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