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His modesty amounts to deformity.
— Margot Asquith
Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.
— H. H. Asquith
The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.
— H. H. Asquith
[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.
— Margot Asquith
Slinky as a lynx, hot as pepper, cool as rain, dry as smoke. There's considerably more to her than staying sexy at 60.
— Ros Asquith
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You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius ...
— Margot Asquith
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
— Margot Asquith
Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.
— Margot Asquith
I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.
— Margot Asquith
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
— Margot Asquith
Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
— H. H. Asquith
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[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.
— Margot Asquith
He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
— Margot Asquith
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
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
There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. Herbert
— H. H. Asquith
The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.
— Margot Asquith
I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.
— Margot Asquith
When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.
— H. H. Asquith
The announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.
— Margot Asquith
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
He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.
— Margot Asquith
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
There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.
— Margot Asquith
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
— Margot Asquith
Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.
— Margot Asquith
Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.
— Margot Asquith
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
— Margot Asquith
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
— Margot Asquith
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913) — D.H. Lawrence
It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.
— Margot Asquith
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
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[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
At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.
— H. H. Asquith
The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends
— Margot Asquith
If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
— Margot Asquith
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[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.
— Margot Asquith
Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.
— Margot Asquith
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
Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.
— Cynthia Asquith
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
— H. H. Asquith
The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.
— H. H. Asquith
He could never see a belt without hitting below it.
— Margot Asquith