influenceable

Updated: August 8, 2026

To be imitative and uninfluenceable although a common combination is a bad one. I am not tempted to be imitative except, I hope, in the better sense of the word, but I regret to own that I am not very influenceable either. The late Countess of Wemyss, who died in 1896, was a great character without being a character-part. She told me that she frightened people, which distressed her.

Margot Asquith - Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One