Brooke Astor Quotes

#1. When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

Brooke Astor

#2. Power is the ability to do good things for others.

Brooke Astor

#3. If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.

Brooke Astor

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Money is like manure; it should be spread around

Brooke Astor

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

Brooke Astor

#8. I have to go around and ask people for money, of course, quite a lot. And it's quite an art to ask people for money. But I think that I have to ask them for money for the things that I'm interested in, and of course, money breeds money.

Brooke Astor

#9. If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I'm not dressed up or I'm not wearing my jewelry, then the people feel I'm talking down to them. People expect to see Mrs. Astor, not some dowdy old lady, and I don't intend to disappoint.

Brooke Astor

#10. '21' was the place, and you went down, and they opened the door. They had a little slit they'd look through, and then you'd murmur the password or whatever it was you had, showed a little ticket, and if they remembered who you were, you went in.

Brooke Astor