"The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world."
- Admiral William Halsey
"✵ When I first met you there was a garden growing from a black hole in my mind. ✵"
- Halsey ♥
"I'm a wanderessI'm a one night standDon't belong to no cityDon't belong to no man(Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)"
- Halsey
"Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence."
- Margaret Halsey
"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them."
- William F. Halsey
"Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores."
"The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action."
"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 charac..."