67 Quotes by Margot Asquith

His modesty amounts to deformity.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

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

The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends.

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.

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.

Rich men’s houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

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

Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government...