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Margot Asquith
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“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.”
Margot Asquith (1864–1945) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) p. 63. (1920).
“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 (1864–1945) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) p. 249. (1922).
“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 (1864–1945) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) p. 291. (1922)
“Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.”
Margot Asquith (1864–1945) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In conversation with James Agate, September 30, 1941; reported by Agate in his Ego 5 (London: Harrap, 1942) p. 136.
“He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.”
Margot Asquith (1864–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by her step-daughter Violet in The Listener, June 11, 1953.
“She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.”
Margot Asquith (1864–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by her step-daughter Violet in The Listener, June 11, 1953.
“He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.”
Margot Asquith (1864–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by her step-daughter Violet in The Listener, June 11, 1953.
“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 (1864–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Mark Bonham Carter in his Introduction to the 1962 edition of The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962) p. xxxv.
“The t is silent, as in Harlow.”
Margot Asquith (1864–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in T. S. Matthews Great Tom (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), ch. 7.
“You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius....”
Margot Asquith (1864–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source