Top 36 Nancy Astor Quotes

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

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

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#3. 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.

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

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

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#6. I married beneath me. All women do.

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#7. Am I dying, or is this my birthday?

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

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

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#10. Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing ...

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#11. If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee,

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

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

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

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#15. Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions

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

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

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

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

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#20. Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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.

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#31. 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

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#32. Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?

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

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#34. 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.

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#35. [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!

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

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