Herbert Henry Asquith

Famous quotes containing the words herbert, henry and/or asquith:

    “True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame
    But borrowed thence to light us thither.
    Beauty and beauteous words should go together.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “Go, grandly borne, with such a train
    As greatest kings might die to gain.
    The just, the wise, the brave,
    Attend thee to the grave.”
    —Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903)

    “The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.... There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.”
    —Margot Asquith (1864–1945)