Margot Asquith Quotes

• It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

  Margot Asquith

  Strong, Character, Influence

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• His modesty amounts to deformity.

  Margot Asquith

  Modesty, Deformity, Amount

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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.

  Margot Asquith

  Stories, Storytelling, Announcements

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.

  Margot Asquith

  Sarcastic, Hitting, Belts

  "Autobiography".

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• The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

  Margot Asquith

  Suffering, Human Nature, Capacity

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

  Margot Asquith

  Sarcastic, Clever, Brain

  In Listener 11 June 1953 "Margot Oxford: a Personal Impression" by Lady Violet Bonham Carter

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• There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

  Margot Asquith

  People, Whole

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.

  Margot Asquith

  Book, Play, Long

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• 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.

  Margot Asquith

  People, Faces, Bores

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• [To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

  Margot Asquith

  Names, Firsts, Silent

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• 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.

  Margot Asquith

  Beautiful, Women, Home

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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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.

  Margot Asquith

  Confused, Taken, Greatness

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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• There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

  Margot Asquith

  Surrender, Should, Intellect

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• 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.

  Margot Asquith

  Greatness, Men, Intellectual

  Margot Asquith (1920). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith”

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• Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

  Margot Asquith

  Signposts, Imaginative, Symbols

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

  Margot Asquith

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Lying

  In Listener 11 June 1953 "Margot Oxford: a Personal Impression" by Lady Violet Bonham Carter

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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.

  Margot Asquith

  Achievement, Asking, Youth

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• The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.

  Margot Asquith

  God, Giving, Wonderful

  Margot Asquith (2014). “Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street”, p.147, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends

  Margot Asquith

  Inspiration, Forgiving, Enemy

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• The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

  Margot Asquith

  Spiritual, Blow, Flames

  Margot Asquith (1922). “An Autobiography ...”

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• All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.

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  Fire, Light, Mind

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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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.

  Margot Asquith

  Kings, Ideas, People

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• 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.

  Margot Asquith

  War, Men, Snakes

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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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.

  Margot Asquith

  Profound, Laughing, May

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• 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.

  Margot Asquith

  Attitude, Father, Lying

  Margot Asquith (1963). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two”

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