Quotes from With Malice Toward Some — Margaret Halsey
1910–1997 United States
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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid, but exquisitely beautiful wife.
With Malice Toward Some (1938)
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.
With Malice Toward Some (1938)
Living in England is curing me with almost alarming rapidity of being shy. Even with the Olympians, there is no need to worry about appearing stupid, because 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.
With Malice Toward Some (1938)