17 Quotations by Margot Asquith
- 1. From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have ...

- 2. He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

- 3. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you a ...

- 4. It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard ...

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

- 6. Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians a ...

- 7. Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant sou ...

- 8. She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

- 9. The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility ...

- 10. The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free ...

- 11. The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free ...

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

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

- 14. There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the grea ...

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

- 16. To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow ...

- 17. What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

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