Margot Asquith Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.
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Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.
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The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends
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What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
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His modesty amounts to deformity.
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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.
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Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.
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The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.
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Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
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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.
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I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.
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You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.
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My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.
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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.
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Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.
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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.
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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.
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She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.
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[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.
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He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
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My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.
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[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.
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I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.
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It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.
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[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.
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I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.
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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.
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