Margot Asquith Quotes

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• Symbols are the imaginative signposts of 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…
• He could never see a belt without hitting below it.
• She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.
• He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
• She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
• It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
• My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took…
• Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.
• The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . .…
• 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…
• What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
• There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.
• His modesty amounts to deformity.
• 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…
• Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing…
• There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.
• The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
• The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
• Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

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