"Margaret Halsey" was an United States/American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book With Malice Towards Some (1938) grew out of her experiences there. It was a witty and humorous bestseller, selling 600,000 copies. It won one of the List of National Book Award winners#1935 to 1941/early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.

"Books and Authors", The New York Times, 1936-04-12, page BR12. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2007).

"Book About Plants Receives Award: Dr. Fairchild's 'Garden' Work Cited by Booksellers", The New York Times 1939-02-15, page 20. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2007).

According to her obituary in The New York Times, she was "a witty writer with an acute social concern, [and] was compared to Dorothy Parker and H. L. Mencken".

[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE4DA143CF934A35751C0A961958260 New York Times obituary].

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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.

The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

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

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.