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The t is silent, as in Harlow.

— Margot Asquith

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Notes from Wikiquote

Correcting Jean Harlow's pronunciation of Margot. It is sometimes said to have been the actress Margot Grahame who delivered this rebuke.

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

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.

One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.

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