Quotes from Margot Asquith

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

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.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

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.

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.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

The spirit of man is an inward flame a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

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.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

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.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

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.