Leaving Quotes by Margot Asquith

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

— Margot Asquith

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

— 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

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

— Margot Asquith

“We desire no conquest, no dominion, we seek no indemnities, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.”

— Margot Asquith

Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am…

— Margot Asquith

My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.

— Margot Asquith

“The home the military top brass had created for themselves was "picturesque, romantic and unreal", he wrote. "It was as though men were playing…

— Margot Asquith

I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.

— Margot Asquith

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

— Margot Asquith

His modesty amounts to deformity.

— Margot Asquith

Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look…

— Margot Asquith