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
people faces bores
I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.
people looks kind
My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.
death preparation dying
It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.
god giving wonderful
The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.
gossip rumor
Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.
kings ideas people
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . . There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
confused taken greatness
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; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.
sarcastic lying cake
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
attitude lying father
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
sarcastic clever brain
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
modesty deformity amount
His modesty amounts to deformity.
strong character influence
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
suffering human-nature capacity
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.