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Famous Margot Asquith Quotes
Source: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two
“You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.”
Source: More Memories
Source: Autobiography
“I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.”
Source: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two
“My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.”
Source: More Or Less about Myself
“It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.”
Source: More Memories
“The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.”
Source: Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street
Source: More Memories
Source: More Memories
Source: More Or Less about Myself
“The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.”
Source: More Or Less about Myself
Source: More Memories
“[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.”
Source: More Or Less about Myself
Source: More Or Less about Myself
“[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.”
Source: More Or Less about Myself
“[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.”
“Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.”
Source: More Memories
“If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.”
Source: Autobiography
“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.”
“It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.”
Source: More Or Less about Myself
Source: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two
Source: Places & Persons
“What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.”
Source: More Or Less about Myself
Source: Autobiography
Source: More Memories
“The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.”
Source: An Autobiography ...
“The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.”
Source: More Memories
“The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends”
Source: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith
Source: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith
Source: Autobiography