Quotes by Nancy Astor

“I married beneath me. All women do.”

“The only thing I like about rich people is their money.”

“A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.”

“Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."Winston Churchill: "Madame,i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!"(Exchange with Winston Churchill)”

“(Exchange with Winston Churchill)Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which the Lady Astor retorted, "Sir, you are not handsom...”

“Nancy Astor: "Winston, you are a drunk!"Winston Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."(Reported exchange will Winston Churchill.”

“My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.”

“We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know.”

“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. ”

“Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.”

“In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.”

“Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, "Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?"(Reported excha...”

“Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?" (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)”

“Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.”

“I married beneath me, all women do.”

“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.”

“One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.”

“One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.”

“I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.”

“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”