Nancy Astor famous quotes

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
-- Nancy Astor

#Education #Teacher #Real

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
-- Nancy Astor

#People #Wealth #Rich

I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Nancy Astor

#Married #Insult

Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
-- Nancy Astor

#Men #Safe #World

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.
-- Nancy Astor

#Common Sense #Humanity #World

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

#Funny #Women #Firsts

If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee,
-- Nancy Astor

#Coffee #Wife #Poison

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
-- Nancy Astor

#Lonely #May #Pioneers

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
-- Nancy Astor

#Stars #Thinking #America

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.
-- Nancy Astor

#Men #World

My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
-- Nancy Astor

#Running #Vitality #Kind

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
-- Nancy Astor

#Family #Dying #My Birthday

No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.
-- Nancy Astor

#Sex #Believe #Civilization

Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing ...
-- Nancy Astor

#Drinking #Giving #Promise

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.
-- Nancy Astor

#Suffering #Politics #Kind

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.
-- Nancy Astor

#Women #Politics #Problem

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.
-- Nancy Astor

#Trying #Progress #Hopeless

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.
-- Nancy Astor

#War #Ends

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.
-- Nancy Astor

#Sisterhood #Men #World

[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.
-- Nancy Astor

#Groups #Prisoner #Wanted

What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
-- Nancy Astor

#Men #Years #Length

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!
-- Nancy Astor

#Men #Doors #Europe

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
-- Nancy Astor

#Funny #Children #Age

Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.
-- Nancy Astor

#Attitude #Lying #Way

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.
-- Nancy Astor

#Peace #People

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
-- Nancy Astor

#Angel #Fool #Sometimes

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?
-- Nancy Astor

#My Birthday #Dying #Last Words

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all
-- Nancy Astor

#Years #Age #Want

It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.
-- Nancy Astor

#Men #Insightful #Important

Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.
-- Nancy Astor

#Dream #May #Disappear

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
-- Nancy Astor

#Success #Women #Bored

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
-- Nancy Astor

#Husband #Alcohol #Poison

I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.
-- Nancy Astor

#Beer #Glasses #Alcohol

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
-- Nancy Astor

#Time #Educational #Want

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know
-- Nancy Astor

#Half #Too Much

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
-- Nancy Astor

#Getting Older #Want #Able

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
-- Nancy Astor

#Inspirational #Change #Memorable