Famous Margot Asquith Quotations

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"He could never see a belt without hitting below it."
by Margot Asquith
"He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head."
by Margot Asquith
"She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake."
by Margot Asquith
"She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig."
by Margot Asquith
"The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature."
by Dorothy Parker
"Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told."
by Margot Asquith
"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it."
by Margot Asquith
"What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it."
by Margot Asquith
"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."
by Margot Asquith
"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."
by Margot Asquith
"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 to love --although I have put it last, is the rarest."
by Margot Asquith
"Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public."
by Margot Asquith
"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."
by Margot Asquith
"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."
by Margot Asquith
"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,'..."
by Margot Asquith


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