Nancy Astor Quotes

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

Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

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

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

Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.

I married beneath me. All women do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing ...

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

If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee,

Am I dying, or is this my birthday?

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

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

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.

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

Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?