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
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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
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Of Lloyd George: he couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
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His modesty amounts to deformity.
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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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Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.
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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 marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
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My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.