H. H. Asquith Quotes
We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.
Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.
The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.
When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.
There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.
The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.
At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.
Slinky as a lynx, hot as pepper, cool as rain, dry as smoke. There's considerably more to her than staying sexy at 60.
There are some people that you cannot change you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs it is the parting.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.