Herbert Henry Asquith

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

    Each part may call the furthest, brother:
    For head with foot hath private amitie,
    And both with moons and tides.
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
    —Dean Henry Cole (1500–1580)

    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)