Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.
I have no face, only two profiles clapped together. - Margot Asquith
I have no face, only two profiles clapped together.
- Margot Asquith
If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster. - Margot Asquith
If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig. - Margot Asquith
She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. - Margot Asquith
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death. - Margot Asquith
It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.
[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions. - Margot Asquith
[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.
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
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.
Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told. - Margot Asquith
Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.
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 … - 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 …
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