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."

"He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head."

"My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn."

"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."

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

"Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there."

"She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake."

"Through the pages of Lay Sermons walk the great. I don't say that Margot Asquith actually permits us to rub elbows with them ourselves, but she willingly shows us her own elbow, which has been, so to …"