I married beneath me, all women do.
– Nancy Astor
If I were your wife, I’d put poison in your coffee.
If I were your husband, I’d drink it.
– Nancy Astor, Sir Winston Churchill
We women talk too much, but even then we don’t tell half what we know.
– Nancy Astor
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
One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
– Nancy Astor
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
– Nancy Astor
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather
than with their minds.
– Nancy Astor
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
The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.
– Nancy Astor
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
– Nancy Astor
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything, or nothing.
– Nancy Astor
Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be here, but you will have ceased to live.
– Nancy Astor
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe
for women.
– Nancy Astor
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
– Nancy Astor
Take a close-up of a woman past sixty? You might as well use a picture of a relief map of
Ireland!
– Nancy Astor
My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me – I am the kind of woman I would run from.
– Nancy Astor
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
– Nancy Astor
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which
links us with all humanity.
– Nancy Astor
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
– Nancy Astor