67 Quotes by Margot Asquith

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

The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

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.

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.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

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.

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

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.