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Margot Asquith quotes: His modesty amounts to deformity.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

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

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

Margot Asquith quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Margot Asquith quotes: It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

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

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

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

Margot Asquith quotes: He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

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

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

Margot Asquith quotes: She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.

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

Margot Asquith quotes: You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius ...

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

Margot Asquith quotes: The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

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

Margot Asquith quotes: I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.

I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.

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

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

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

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

Margot Asquith quotes: He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

Margot Asquith quotes: 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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Margot Asquith quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Margot Asquith quotes: What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

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

Margot Asquith quotes: Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Margot Asquith quotes: It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

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

Margot Asquith quotes: 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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Margot Asquith quotes: The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends

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

Margot Asquith quotes: She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Margot Asquith quotes: If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

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

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

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

Margot Asquith quotes: Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

Margot Asquith quotes: 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.

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

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

Margot Asquith quotes: He could never see a belt without hitting below it.

He could never see a belt without hitting below it.

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

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

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

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