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Margaret Halsey, a British writer, was born on February 13, 1910, and passed away on February 4, 1997. Her works spanned across various genres including children's literature, historical novels, and adult fiction, known for her unique literary style and profound insights into human nature.

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“From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.”

Feels Mind England Architecture Helpless Tourists Standpoint Visitors Oxford Anecdotes Overpowering

Book:With Malice Toward Some

Source: With Malice Toward Some

“Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.”

Ifs Looks Made Heard England Shoes

Author:Margaret Halsey

“It 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.”

Thinking Firsts May Walks Food England Bent

Book:With Malice Toward Some

Source: With Malice Toward Some

“There 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.”

States Culture Sex Sports United United States Crime Scene England Instance France Making Money Sunday Philanthropy Easter Propositions Belgium Holland Easter Sunday

Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“English 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.”

Years Life Is England Surface Introduction Iceberg Below The Surface

Author:Margaret Halsey

“The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.”

Faces England Asking Dinner Insulting Refrain Upper Class Old Money

Author:Margaret Halsey

“The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.”

Deals Attitude Directors Hollywood England Insulting English History

Book:With Malice Toward Some

Source: With Malice Toward Some

“Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.”

Humor Funny Beautiful Wife Stupid Married England Being Married Ignorance Is Bliss Beautiful Wife

Book:With Malice Toward Some

Source: With Malice Toward Some

About the Author

Born: February 13, 1910
Died: February 4, 1997
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 94

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