The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
Margaret HalseyAmericans (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.
Margaret HalseyThe real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
Margaret HalseyThe stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
Margaret Halsey