Margot Asquith Quotes

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

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.

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

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

He's 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.

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs —apart from discernment —a certain greatness to find him.

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . . There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

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

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