Top 40 Margot Asquith Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “His modesty amounts to deformity.”

— Margot Asquith

2. “The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.”

— Margot Asquith

3. “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.”

— Margot Asquith

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

— Margot Asquith

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

— Margot Asquith

6. “He could never see a belt without hitting below it.”

— Margot Asquith

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

— Margot Asquith

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

— Margot Asquith

Featured in: Strong Quotes

9. “There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.”

— Margot Asquith

10. “She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.”

— Margot Asquith

11. “Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.”

— Margot Asquith

12. “I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.”

— Margot Asquith

13. “If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.”

— Margot Asquith

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

— Margot Asquith

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

— Margot Asquith

16. “Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.”

— Margot Asquith

17. “There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.”

— Margot Asquith

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

— Margot Asquith

19. “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.”

— Margot Asquith

20. “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.”

— Margot Asquith

21. “The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.”

— Margot Asquith

22. “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...”

— Margot Asquith

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

— Margot Asquith

24. “Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.”

— Margot Asquith

25. “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.”

— Margot Asquith

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

— Margot Asquith

27. “What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.”

— Margot Asquith

28. “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.”

— Margot Asquith

29. “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.”

— Margot Asquith

30. “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.”

— Margot Asquith

Featured in: Strong Quotes

31. “I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.”

— Margot Asquith

32. “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.”

— Margot Asquith

33. “I do not say I was ever what I would call “plain,” but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.”

— Margot Asquith

34. “Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.”

— Margot Asquith

35. “My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.”

— Margot Asquith

36. “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...”

— Margot Asquith

37. “You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius...”

— Margot Asquith

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

— Margot Asquith

39. “I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.”

— Margot Asquith

40. “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.”

— Margot Asquith