Margot Asquith Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.”
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“The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.”
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“He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.”
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“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 his own happiness with him.”
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“The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.”
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“Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.”
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“The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends”
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“There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.”
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“To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.”
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“Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.”
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“Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.”
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“I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.”
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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 through the keyhole there would be nobody there.”
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“If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.”
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“There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.”
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“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 no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.”
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“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 courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.”
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“She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.”
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“He could never see a belt without hitting below it.”
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“She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.”
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“Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.”
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“Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.”
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“The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . . There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.”
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“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 I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.”
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“What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.”
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“There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.”
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“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 stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.”
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“All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light ...”
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“[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.”
-- Margot Asquith
