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
stories storytelling announcements
the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.
gossip rumor
Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.
god giving wonderful
The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.
death preparation dying
It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.
abstract given
The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.
loyal politician conviction
[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.
party thinking leaving
[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.
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.
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.
genius talent can-do
You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius....
signposts imaginative symbols
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
spiritual blow flames
The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
stupid math piano
Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.