Quotes by Margot Asquith

Margot Asquith

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

Conviction

Loyal

Politician

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it’s nothing to the rot the dead talk.

Spiritualism

[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don’t think it hasn’t been charming, because it hasn’t.

Leaving

Party

Thinking

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

Firsts

Names

Silent

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.

Fire

Light

Mind

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

Math

Piano

Stupid

Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but … to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men’s drag.

Anchors

Leader

Men

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.

Men

Snakes

War

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.

Achievement

Asking

Youth

He couldn’t see a belt without hitting below it.

Belts

Hitting

Sarcastic

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Adversity

America

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Apricots

Asking

Attitude

Beautiful

Believe

Belts

Blow

Book

Bores

Brain

Brilliant

Brilliant Minds

Can Do Something

Capacity

Character

Clever

Confused

Conviction

Country

Death

Deformity

Discovery

Doctors

Dying

Enemy

Faces

Father

Fire

Firsts

Flames

Forgiving

Genius

Given

Giving

God

Gossip

Great Men

Greatness

Hitting

Home

Human Nature

Ideas

Imaginative

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Quotes by Margot Asquith

Margot Asquith

[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.

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

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.

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but … to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men’s drag.

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.

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.

He couldn’t see a belt without hitting below it.

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