28 ordspråk av Margot Asquith
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. |
| 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. |
| Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind. |
| She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. |
| She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. |
| Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life. |
| The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The t is silent, as in Harlow. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. |
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