Lady Astor Quotes

#1. 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

#2. (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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. If you can't run, and the plays in front of you, you just can't get gay.

Jim Palmer

#6. Radishes grow just about anywhere. People think, 'Oh it's just a radish.' But radishes are delicious, and people don't think of cooking them.

Emeril Lagasse

#7. Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed-ask for more strength!

Sheng Yen

#8. If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.

Walter Moers

#9. Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.

Euripides

#10. 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

#11. Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

B.C. Forbes

#12. I just do what I got to do and go out and be myself, on and off the court, and take care of my obligations. That's generally your own destiny-knowing what you have to take care of.

LeBron James

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

Brooke Astor

#14. A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

Lady Nancy Astor

#15. 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