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
below belt english-author hitting
He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
below belt hitting
Of Lloyd George: he couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
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Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
modesty deformity amount
His modesty amounts to deformity.
suffering human-nature capacity
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.
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.
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The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.
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[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.
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[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.
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You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius....