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Margot Asquith Biography

Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (née Tennant; 2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945), known as Margot Asquith, was an Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit. She was married to H. H. Asquith, a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1894 until his death in 1928.

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He could never see a belt without hitting below it.

Belt, Belts, Hitting, Sarcastic, See

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

Great Men, Kitchener, Man, Men, Poster, Posters

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.

Confused, Courage, Greatness, Power, Rarest, Taken

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

Gossip, Incalculable, Infectious, Rumor, Untraceable

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.

Greatness, Men, Intellectual, Intellect, Man, Talent

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Imaginative, Life, Signposts, Symbols

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.

Character, Folly, Man, Marriage, Mistaken, Strong

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, Housemaid, Laid, Light, Match, Mind

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, Achieving, Asking, Haunted, Say, Youth

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

Discriminate, Needs, Told, Truthfulness, Truths, Virtue

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.

Gauged, Intellect, Men, Reason

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.

Attitude, Father, Lying, Stuff, Factories, Took

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

Brain, Dumb, Like, Math, Piano, Stupid

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

Death, Dying, Living, Preparation

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.

Expression, Loved, Loving, Men, War, Welcomed

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

Austen, Chamberlain, Conviction, Friends, Loyal, Politician

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.

Brain, Look, Looks, Nobody, Shut, Would Be

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

Announcements, Dangerous, Opening, Stories, Story, Storytelling

Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

Disadvantages, Laughing, May, Profound, Topic

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

Sarcastic, Clever, Brain, Brains, Head

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