Margot Asquith Quotes - Page 2

• You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

  Margot Asquith

  Genius, Talent, Can Do Something

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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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.

  Margot Asquith

  Believe, Men, Perfect

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

  Margot Asquith

  Gossip, Rumor

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• I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.

  Margot Asquith

  Two, Together, Faces

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

  Margot Asquith

  Stupid, Math, Piano

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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.

  Margot Asquith

  Men, Anchors, Leader

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• [To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.

  Margot Asquith

  Party, Thinking, Leaving

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• 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

  Men, Reason, Intellect

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. 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

  Marriage, Strong, Character

  Margot Asquith (1920). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith”

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• Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.

  Margot Asquith

  Mind, Brilliant, Brilliant Minds

  Quoted in The Wit of the Asquiths (published1974).

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• What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

  Margot Asquith

  Discovery, America, Religion

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

  Margot Asquith

  Spiritualism

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

  Margot Asquith

  Abstract, Given

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.

  Margot Asquith

  Sarcastic, Pigs, Looks

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• If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

  Margot Asquith

  Men, Posters, Great Men

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• It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

  Margot Asquith

  Death, Preparation, Dying

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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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.

  Margot Asquith

  Brain, Would Be, Looks

  "Ego 5" by James Agate, London: Harrap, (p. 136), 1942.

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• Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

  Margot Asquith

  Needs, Virtue, Truthfulness

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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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  Wall, Adversity, Apricots

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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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.

  Margot Asquith

  Strong, Thinking, Race

  Margot Asquith (1925). “Places & Persons”

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• I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.

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  Country, Book, Years

  Margot Asquith (1963). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two”

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• My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.

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  Kings, Doctors, Old Friends

  Margot Asquith (1963). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two”

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

  Margot Asquith

  People, Looks, Kind

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• [On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

  Margot Asquith

  Loyal, Politician, Conviction

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