Asquith Quotes

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. - Herbert Asquith

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. - Margot Asquith

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has 'never had a chance, poor devil', you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone. - 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. - Margot Asquith

The t is silent, as in Harlow. - Margot Asquith

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 to love /although I have put it last, is the rarest. - Margot Asquith

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

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. - Dorothy Parker