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
beautiful mean men
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.
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.
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.
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.
men great-men posters
If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
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 ...
lord
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
earliest wall
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.
america discovered english-author
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
below belt hitting
Of Lloyd George: he couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
brilliant english-author mind until
He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.
below belt english-author hitting
He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
abstract given
The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.