the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.
Margot AsquithThere are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.
Margot Asquith[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.
Margot AsquithThe 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 of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.
Margot Asquith