His modesty amounts to deformity.


Margot Asquith

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DOROTHY PARKER
[Jean Harlow] 'Say - aren't you Margot Asquith?' (pronouncing the hard 't')
[Margot Asquith] 'Y...
MARGOT ASQUITH
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow...
MARGOT ASQUITH
He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
MARGOT ASQUITH
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have ...
MARGOT ASQUITH
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free ...
MARGOT ASQUITH
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility...
MARGOT ASQUITH
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the grea...
MARGOT ASQUITH
Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians a...
MARGOT ASQUITH
It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard...
MARGOT ASQUITH
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
MARGOT ASQUITH
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
MARGOT ASQUITH
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
MARGOT ASQUITH
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
MARGOT ASQUITH
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
MARGOT ASQUITH
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant sou...
MARGOT ASQUITH
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the grea...
MARGOT ASQUITH
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life
MARGOT ASQUITH
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility...
MARGOT ASQUITH
No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from yo...
MARGOT ASQUITH
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
MARGOT ASQUITH
The t is silent, as in Harlow.
MARGOT ASQUITH
Of Lloyd George: he couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
MARGOT ASQUITH
If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
MARGOT ASQUITH
He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.
MARGOT ASQUITH
An imitation rough diamond.
MARGOT ASQUITH
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow ...
MARGOT ASQUITH
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head
MARGOT ASQUITH
You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.
PAUL AUSTER
Conformity is deformity
SHARON DESRUISSEAUX
Art is significant deformity.
ROGER FRY
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls fo...
CLARENCE DARROW
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
CONFUCIUS
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is l...
MAX BEERBOHM
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they ...
SARAH FIELDING
The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes...
MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS)
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes we...
MARK TWAIN
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."

(Letter to Cyn...
D.H. LAWRENCE
Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.
CHITA RIVERA
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
MARK TWAIN
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf
MARK TWAIN
Beware of the person who speaks without modesty because he will always break his promises.
VIKRANT PARSAI
When anyone remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then his modesty is real
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Then kindly recall that variation is not the same as deformity.
LALINE PAULL
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. ...
HARRIET MARTINEAU
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings
LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
HECTOR BERLIOZ
I think trying to maintain a classic pretty style is the way I like to go, like Margot Robbie's ...
HAILEY BALDWIN
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the know...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the know...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
I am impressed with his demeanor, his intelligence, his sense of humor, his modesty, ... Absent some...
KENT CONRAD
I used the physical deformity to a certain extent by conducting research into physical deformities, ...
GERARD BUTLER
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
WILFRED BURCHETT
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
FRANCIS BACON
The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion
MARK TWAIN
Modesty, not temper.
GEORGE ELIOT
Modesty is fear.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
JULES RENARD
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
SIR RICHARD STEELE
When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jema...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it
JOSEPH ADDISON
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
The modesty's a candle to thy merit.
HENRY FIELDING
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamen...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.
UNKNOWN
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only y...
PAUL GOODMAN
Like the violet, which alone Prospers in some happy shade, My Castara lives unknown To n...
WILLIAM HABINGTON
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talen...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false
JOSEPH ADDISON
Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by
ANDRE MAUROIS
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great tal...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Modesty is my best quality
JACK BENNY
He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
JAMES THOMSON (1)
Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON
It rarely adds anything to say, ''In my opinion'' -not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only yo...
PAUL GOODMAN
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who u...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell And gave him what becomed love I might, Not stepping...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ...
MARIETTA HOLLEY
Modesty thy virtue is kind to all.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
She just wore Enough for modesty - no more
ROBERT BUCHANAN
It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty
J. B. BOSSUET
Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Modesty thy virtue is softness & kindness for all.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Make modesty your circumcision, and good conduct your fast. In this way, you shall be a true Muslim.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
OLIVER HERFORD
A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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Hang on to your integrity and misbehave with dignity.
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Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.
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I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out bas...
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It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in M...
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It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on ...
MARGOT ROBBIE
My jet lag is getting a bit ridiculous. But, you know, it's first-world problems. It's a won...
MARGOT ROBBIE
There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but there...
MARGOT ROBBIE
All your mannerisms change easily when you have inch-long acrylic nails.
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I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
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I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic...
MARGOT KIDDER
The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.
MARGOT ADLER
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
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I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many w...
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Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.
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Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike
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To be captured as a trophy and than have our emotions neglected is tragic. We might as well be stuff...
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#666, first of all, you are the devil, obviously, you're my best friend, you are the most clever&wit...
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As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice
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No matter where you float in the sea of love, it is important to see all the love around you. The un...
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Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
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People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile; it puts a lot of stress on a...
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I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find th...
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I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A R...
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Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard w...
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Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.
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I was very active in the peace movement, still am.
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Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press c...
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I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dish...
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The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.
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When I eat, I have to chop up everything on the plate and stir it all together. It devastates my mom...
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I have to keep explaining to people that screen kissing isn't quite the same; it's close, bu...
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I kind of like pony tails, beards, maybe a tattoo. My massive obsession - I'm really targeting a...
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God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room...
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To do all your own stunts, you have to be so strong.
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We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and...
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I know that my look is more 'toothpaste model' as opposed to artsy, which sucks because I ca...
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I live with three boys, and I can't tell you how hard it is to get your hands on toilet paper. T...
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Each pearl is a jewel of wisdom, wrestled from struggle and strung in sequence to create infinite in...
MARGOT DATZ
so often my own emotions were hidden not only from other people but from myself. or perhaps it was t...
MARGOT LIVESEY
The wind sings of our nostalgia
and the starry sky ignores our dreams.
Each snow flake is...
MARGOT BICKEL
In addition it is absorbed quickly, doesn't leave a greasy film behind and helps lock moisture into ...
MARGOT HELLMISS
Cleopatra and Nefertiti knew the wonderful effects of olive oil, Natural cosmetics are in. The Medit...
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I had three weddings. That's enough.
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This amendment is so unbelievably draconian because it pretends to be doing something that it is so ...
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It's not necessary to do what this bill would have done in order to promote commerce over the Intern...
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Negotiation seems like dancing the Tango, two steps forward, two steps back and suddenly three surpr...
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We have finalised the rescue operation. We have rescued the Kyoto protocol. It is a major achievemen...
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We are bursting at the seams.
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Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO
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PRINCESS ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
PRINCESS ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
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Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess:

Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing ol...
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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
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I'm not a scientist or a mathematician.
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Katherine gave in to the wonder of the moment, imagining herself in the astronauts' place. What emot...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to wor...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossib...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.
MARGOT BENARY-ISBERT
The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories ab...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defin...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
Their goal wasn't to stand out because of their differences; it was to fit in because of their talen...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfi...
RT. HON. HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH