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His modesty amounts to deformity.

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

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.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.

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

[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius ...

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.

The announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

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 ...

[Jean Harlow] 'Say - aren't you Margot Asquith?' (pronouncing the hard 't')
[Margot Asquith] 'Yes Dear, But the 't' is silent, as in Harlow.

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

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

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.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

He could never see a belt without hitting below it.

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

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.