Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.
Margot AsquithThere 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 Asquiththe announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.
Margot Asquith