Margot Asquith Quotes - Page 2

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.

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

Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government.

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

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.

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

I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.

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.

Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.

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

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

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

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.

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

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.

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.

I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.

My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.

My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.

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