Top 13 Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor Quotes
#1. Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
#2. We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know.
#3. Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."
Winston Churchill: "Madame,i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!"
(Exchange with Winston Churchill)
#4. Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
#5. The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
#6. One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
#7. The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
#8. (Exchange with Winston Churchill)
Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which the Lady Astor retorted, "Sir, you are not handsome enough to have such fears".
#9. Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
#10. Nancy Astor: "Winston, you are a drunk!"
Winston Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."
(Reported exchange will Winston Churchill.
#11. The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.
#12. Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, "Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?"
(Reported exchange with Winston Churchill)
#13. Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying? (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)
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