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
kings doctors old-friends
My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.
loyal politician conviction
[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.
men anchors leader
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.
men reason intellect
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.
spiritualism
[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.
names firsts silent
[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.
profound laughing may
Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.
party thinking leaving
[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.
men great-men posters
If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
book play long
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.
believe men perfect
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 ...
genius talent can-do
You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius....
wall adversity apricots
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.
country book years
I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.