Margaret Halsey Quotes

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The role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
— Margaret Halsey The Folks at Home

acting

Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
— Margaret Halsey

silence

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.
— Margaret Halsey

middle age

Money does not corrupt people.  Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.
— Margaret Halsey The Folks at Home

money

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
— Margaret Halsey The Folks at Home

sex

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words.  There is money in it.
— Margaret Halsey The Folks at Home

business

How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance!  I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commonplace domestic situation.
— Margaret Halsey This Demi-Paradise: A Westchester Diary

family