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. Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I sleep with beneficent and watchful care; and it takes me at last to its great bosom, where my ashes mingle with their kindred dust.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#3. He could not feel at ease with gourmets and hedonists; they were a hostile species.

Paul Bowles

#4. I am a creature of the sun. I don't ever mind being in the heat.

Kristin Chenoweth

#5. I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.

Veronica Roth

#6. Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

Brenda Ueland

#7. But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.

Osamu Dazai

#8. The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

Patrick Macnee

#9. Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Brooke Astor

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

Brooke Astor

#12. When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

Rich Mullins

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

Ray Winstone

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

Brooke Astor

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

Brooke Astor

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Her very difficulty created friction, and friction led to satisfaction ...

Jonathan Franzen

#21. '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