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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

The boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance. — Mary Astor

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

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

No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality. — Brooke Astor

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying? (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.) — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches. — Mary Astor

Politics? Ha! You couldn't get into politics. You couldn't get in anywhere. You couldn't even get in the men's room at the Astor! — Jean Harlow

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

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

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

To move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business. — Mary Astor

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

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

I don't think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was. — Mary Astor

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

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

Grass is growing on the Front Bench. — Nancy Astor

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

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

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October. — Christine Keeler

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

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

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

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

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

Am I dying, or is this my birthday? — Nancy Astor

When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them. — Brooke Astor

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse. — Mary Astor

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs. — Ernest Thompson Seton

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

If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made. — Brooke Astor

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

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

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

Money is like manure; it should be spread around — Brooke Astor

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

Oh?" Tom's eyebrows shot up high. "What an interesting career choice. And may I ask what division you were in? — Marie Astor

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

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

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

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress. — Brooke Astor

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

Power is the ability to do good things for others. — Brooke Astor

I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city. — Brooke Astor

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

Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions — Nancy Astor

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

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. — Mary Astor

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. — Mary Astor

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ... — Mary Astor

Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it. — Mary Astor

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

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

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

For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet. — Astor Piazzolla

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

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it. — Winston S. Churchill

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

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

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel. — Mary Astor

Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence. — Mary Astor

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

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

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

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. — Mary Astor