Margot Asquith
Title: Countess of Oxford and Asquith
Birth Name: Emma Alice Margaret Tennant
Birthdate: February 2, 1864
Birthplace: Peeblesshire, Tweeddale, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: July 28, 1945
Occupation: Author and Socialite
Profile: Wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1908–1916).
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Asquith
Number of Quotes: 20
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.
He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this
day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.
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.
It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard
and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
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.
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness; the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage; and the fourth—the power of love.
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find.
There are some people that you cannot change; you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.
There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.
[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t
is silent, as in Harlow.
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
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