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A source page for quotes linked to Margot Asquith.
“Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.”
“You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.”
“I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.”
“My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.”
“It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.”
“The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.”
“The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.”
“[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.”
“[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.”
“[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.”
“If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.”
“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.”
“What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.”
“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.”
“The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends”