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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.

Margot Asquith

On spiritualism:

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

Margot Asquith

All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light...

Margot Asquith

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.

Margot Asquith

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.

Margot Asquith

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.

Margot Asquith

I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.

Margot Asquith

Margot Asquith

Margot Asquith

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Born: February 2, 1864

Died: July 28, 1945 (aged 81)

Bio: Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, known as Margot Asquith, was an Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit. She was married to H. H. Asquith, a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1894 until his death in 1928.

Known for:

Margot Asquith an Autobiography (1920)
My Impressions Of America (1922)
The Autobiography of Margot Asquith Volume 1
An Autobiography, Vol. 1 of 2

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