Margot Asquith Quotes

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She [Lady Desborough] tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Margot Asquith
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

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Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

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It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

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Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

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The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

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The announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

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The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.... There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

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He [Lloyd George] can't see a belt without hitting below it.

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Clothes are symbols, and symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

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On spiritualism:
I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.

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My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.

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I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.

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Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.

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Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag.

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One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

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Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

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Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

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Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government.

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I may be wrong, but I have never found deserting friends conciliates enemies.

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The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

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If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

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From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

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There is nothing more popular in the House of Commons than to blame yourself. 'I have killed my mother. I will never do it again,' is certain to raise a cheer.

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