67 Quotes by Margot Asquith

[Jean Harlow] 'Say - aren't you Margot Asquith?' (pronouncing the hard 't')[Margot Asquith] 'Yes Dear, But the 't' is silent, as in Harlow.

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

No one ever pruned me. 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.

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

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

Of Lloyd George: he couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.

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

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 ...