Margot Asquith Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Strong #Character #Influence

“His modesty amounts to deformity.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Modesty #Deformity
“The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Suffering #Human Nature #Capacity
“He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Sarcastic #Clever #Brain
“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.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Attitude #Lying #Father
“The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Spiritual #Blow #Flames
“Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Stupid #Math #Piano
“The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends”
-- Margot Asquith

#Inspiration #Forgiving #Enemy
“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.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Greatness #Men #Intellectual
“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.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Marriage #Strong #Character
“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.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Beautiful #Mean #Men
“Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Mind #Brilliant #Brilliant Minds
“I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Two #Together #Faces
“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.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Brain #Would Be #Looks
“If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Men #Posters #Great Men
“There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.”
-- Margot Asquith

#People
“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.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Achievement #Asking #Youth
“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.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Confused #Taken #Greatness
“She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Sarcastic #Pigs #Looks
“He could never see a belt without hitting below it.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Sarcastic #Hitting #Belts
“She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Sarcastic #Lying #Ice
“Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Signposts #Imaginative #Symbols
“Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Needs #Virtue #Truthfulness
“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.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Kings #Ideas #People
“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.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Strong #Thinking #Race
“What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.”
-- Margot Asquith

#America #Pity
“There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Surrender #Should #Intellect
“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.”
-- Margot Asquith

#War #Men #Expression
“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 ...”
-- Margot Asquith

#Fire #Light #Mind
“[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.”
-- Margot Asquith

#Loyal #Politician #Conviction

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