67 Quotes by Margot Asquith

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.

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

He could never see a belt without hitting below it.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

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

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.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus 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.

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.