67 Quotes by Margot Asquith

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

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