Margot Asquith

“I am told that I have a very difficult nature. I am not at all sure that I have not got the devil in me.”

“He is a man of the highest principles, and he will never be happy until he has lived down to every one of them.”

“I don't think we are in this world to be happy. We are here to be heroes. We are here to be martyrs.”

“There is only one rule in canvas -- beauty and mystery.”

“People are either born hosts or born guests.”

“The shells of the old super-Dreadnoughts are so costly that it would be positively rude to miss the enemy.”

“The only man I ever really loved was an umbrella.”

“I am not a fool, but I am an idiot.”

“He is one of those who has every quality for success, but lacks the one quality necessary to attain it.”