Margot Asquith
Margot Asquith
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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 February 1864
Margot Asquith quotes about
spiritual blow flames
The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
two together faces
I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.
people whole
There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.
greatness men intellectual
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.
sarcastic pigs faces
She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.
sarcastic hitting belts
He could never see a belt without hitting below it.
signposts imaginative symbols
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
needs virtue truthfulness
Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.
strong thinking race
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.
america religion pity
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
surrender should intellect
There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.
war men snakes
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.
achievement asking youth
Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.
brain looks rooms
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.