All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.
Margot AsquithThe capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Margot AsquithTruthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.
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