Margot Asquith Quotes (21 Quotes)

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

No one ever pruned me. 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.

An imitation rough diamond.

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

The spirit of man is an inward flame a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

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 . . .

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

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

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

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.

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.

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.

Dear boy, it isn't that your manners are bad -- it's simply that you have no manners at all.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs -- apart from discernment -- a certain greatness to find him.

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.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

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

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 . . .