Character Quote by Margot Asquith

“Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.”

Margot Asquith

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She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

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

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Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

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

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

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

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

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I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.

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

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His modesty amounts to deformity.

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

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