H. H. Asquith Quotes & Sayings

I can honestly say that I have never had a more bitter disappointment. — H. H. Asquith

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself. — H. H. Asquith

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. — H. H. Asquith

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. — H. H. Asquith

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army. — H. H. Asquith

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. Herbert — H. H. Asquith

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday. — H. H. Asquith

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power. — H. H. Asquith

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. — H. H. Asquith

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain. — H. H. Asquith

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. — H. H. Asquith