Margot Asquith Quotes and Sayings
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What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America,
that he ever mentioned it.
- Margot Asquith

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that
I have observed in human nature.
- Margot Asquith

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.
- Margot Asquith

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
- Margot Asquith

His modesty amounts to deformity.
- Margot Asquith

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
- Margot Asquith

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
- Margot Asquith

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He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
- Margot Asquith

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
- Margot Asquith

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
- 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.
- Margot Asquith

It is always dangerous to generalize,
but the American people, while infinitely generous,
are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen,
I am inclined to think they never die.
- Margot Asquith

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful,
rarely comfortable, and never original.
It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate
means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
- Margot Asquith

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17

Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou

We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen

Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous

Pity may represent little more
than the impersonal concern
which prompts the mailing of a check,
but true sympathy is the personal concern
which demands the giving of one's soul.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution
that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis of Assisi

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point
should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike,
friendship, anger or pity.
- Sallust

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or
three slight nods of the head,
is pity's small change in general society.
- Charles Dickens

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
- Chauncey Depew

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
- Letitia Landon

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple
human pity that will not forsake us.
- George Eliot

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never;
I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
- James Agate

If you can once engage people's pride,
love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear
what their reason can do against you.
- Lord Chesterfield

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
- Stanley Kubrick

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than
she had not thought of birth control.
- Muriel Spark

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
- William Blake

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
- Stanley Kubrick

When the severity of the law is to be softened,
let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
- Miguel de Cervantes

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man
or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
- Benjamin Harrison

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Don Marquis

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man,
that he may be set on fire like a candle,
at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
- Laurence Sterne

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
- Stephen Vincent Benet

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity!
and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his
character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived.
It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge
of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
- F. H. Bradley

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -
deprived himself of the power of living life as it
is without wishing it to become something different.
- John Galsworthy

The thing should have plot and character,
beginning, middle and end.
Arouse pity and then have a catharsis.
Those were the best principles I was ever taught.
- Anne Rice

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
- Lyman Abbott

Suffering!
We owe to it all that is good in us,
all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity,
we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
- Anatole France

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
- Sydney Smith

I tell people to monitor their self-pity.
Self-pity is very unattractive.
- Patty Duke

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished.
To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
- Horace Mann

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state;
infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies;
and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
- David Brainerd

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money.
I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
- Jean-Luc Godard

All who consult on doubtful matters,
should be void of hatred,
friendship, anger, and pity.
- Sallust

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment,
which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
- Manly Hall

The fool within himself is the object of pity,
until he is flattered.
- Richard Steele

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
- Voltaire

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are.
What a pity that, when pregnant with him,
his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
- Oriana Fallaci

Moon!
Moon!
I am prone before you.
Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
- Amy Lowell

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel,
we elected to become a society that never made contact,
that never gave SETI a fair chance.
- Barney Oliver

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional
reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
- Ferdinand Mount

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
- Miguel de Unamuno

Only those who spread treachery, fire,
and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
- Jose Marti

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the
same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
- Stendhal

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we
shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do,
no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.
- Catherine McAuley

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
- Vicki Baum

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
- Joseph Addison

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief,
a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
- Elizabeth Bowen

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts,
but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
- Edgar Rice Burroghs

She knows as well as anyone that pity,
having played, soon tires.
- Edwin A. Robinson

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
- Andre Maurois

Pity is treason.
- Maximilien Robespierre

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie