Top 95 Astor Quotes
#1. So you're not going to die, are you?" she [Astor] asked politely.
"Not yet," I said. "Not until after you do your homework."
She nodded, glanced toward the kitchen, and said, "I hate math." Then she wandered away down the hall, presumably to hate math at closer range.
Jeff Lindsay
#2. Mrs. Astor had long held that artists of any ilk - painters, authors, actors and the like - merit no recognition unless safely dead, and that meeting them risks both needless mental fatigue and the possibility of social contamination.
Paula Cohen
#3. Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.
Ernest Thompson Seton
#4. Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.
Nigel Rees
#5. If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee," Lady Astor once famously remarked to Winston Churchill. "If I were married to you," he replied, "I'd drink it.
Anonymous
#6. 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
#7. 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)
Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
#8. But he lacked a sense of urgency at key periods, and lacked a firm hand when one was sometimes called for. His greatest strength may have proved his greatest flaw - one that finally sunk John Jacob Astor's West Coast empire. Wilson Price Hunt vastly preferred cooperation to confrontation.
Peter Stark
#9. Earth to Dexter, Astor said, and I realized that I still stood in front of them frozen in my unlikely, foolish openmouthed pose like a pedantic zombie.
Jeff Lindsay
#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.
Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
#11. (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".
Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
#12. Mr. Churchill your drunk!"
Mr. Churchill: "And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. As for my condition, it will pass by the morning. You, however, will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill
#13. 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
#14. There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor Type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?
Mary Astor
#15. But it's different for a girl, and Astor is at the age- It's not too dry, is it?" She said, frowning at my plate.
"It's perfect," I said.
"It is dry; I'm sorry. So I thought maybe if you would talk to her," Rita finished. I truly hoped she meant talk to Astor and not the pork chop.
Jeff Lindsay
#16. In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I established a new Laboratory of Neurobiology and continued my close collaboration with Charles Gilbert on the circuitry of primary visual cortex.
Torsten Wiesel
#17. Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.
Christine Keeler
#18. Let me be clear that I never offered House Astor an insult ... Nor did I insult Reginald. I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern.
Jim Butcher
#19. The grandfather clock struck the half hour. She must be away. Glancing from Mama to Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Astor, she did the only polite thing she could do.
She rolled her eyes back in her head, exhaled a loud gasp and swooned out of her chair.
Rachel Hauck
#20. 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)
Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
#21. Now-a-days lower Broadway is blocked with traffic at this hour and everyone walks; even the decrepit John Jacob Astor can be seen crawling along the street like some ancient snail, his viscous track the allure of money. Instead
Gore Vidal
#22. 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
#23. I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat.
James Rosenquist
#24. Oh?" Tom's eyebrows shot up high. "What an interesting career choice. And may I ask what division you were in?
Marie Astor
#25. 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.
Nancy Astor
#26. Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.
Nancy Astor
#28. For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet.
Astor Piazzolla
#29. Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
Nancy Astor
#30. Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.
Mary Astor
#31. Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.
Mary Astor
#32. Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.
Mary Astor
#33. A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
Mary Astor
#34. Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
Nancy Astor
#35. I am sure that you will never end war with wars.
Nancy Astor
#36. It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.
Nancy Astor
#37. I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.
Nancy Astor
#38. People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.
Nancy Astor
#39. The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
Nancy Astor
#42. 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
Nancy Astor
#43. I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it.
Astor Piazzolla
#44. '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
#45. What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
Nancy Astor
#46. [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!
Nancy Astor
#47. 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
#48. My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
Nancy Astor
#49. Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?
Nancy Astor
#50. The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
Mary Astor
#51. Money is like manure; it should be spread around
Brooke Astor
#53. A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
Lady Nancy Astor
#54. 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
#55. I don't think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.
Mary Astor
#56. Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.
Mary Astor
#57. I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.
Brooke Astor
#58. 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.
Nancy Astor
#60. 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
#61. Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing ...
Nancy Astor
#63. The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ...
Mary Astor
#64. It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.
Nancy Astor
#65. From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
Nancy Astor
#68. Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.
Nancy Astor
#70. Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
Mary Astor
#72. 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
#73. I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world
except a woman-governed world.
Nancy Astor
#74. It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
Mary Astor
#75. 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
#76. Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.
Mary Astor
#77. When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.
Brooke Astor
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. [To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.
Nancy Astor
#82. Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.
Nancy Astor
#83. I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Nancy Astor
#84. The boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.
Mary Astor
#85. If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.
Brooke Astor
#86. Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions
Nancy Astor
#87. One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor
#88. To move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.
Mary Astor
#89. I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
Nancy Astor
#90. Power is the ability to do good things for others.
Brooke Astor
#92. 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
#93. A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.
Mary Astor
#94. The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.
Nancy Astor
#95. If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee,
Nancy Astor
