Ettie is an ox: she will be made into Bovril when she dies.
– Margot Asquith
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
He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
– Margot Asquith
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
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
– Margot Asquith
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
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
– Margot Asquith
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.
– Margot Asquith
The t is silent, as in Harlow.
– 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
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.