Top 52 Nancy Astor Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#7. The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
Nancy Astor
#8. People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.
Nancy Astor
#9. I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.
Nancy Astor
#10. It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.
Nancy Astor
#11. I am sure that you will never end war with wars.
Nancy Astor
#12. Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
Nancy Astor
#13. Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
Nancy Astor
#15. Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.
Nancy Astor
#16. 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
#17. (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
#19. 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
#20. A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
Lady Nancy Astor
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?
Nancy Astor
#25. My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
Nancy Astor
#26. 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
#27. [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
#28. What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
Nancy Astor
#29. Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing ...
Nancy Astor
#30. 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
#31. I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world
except a woman-governed world.
Nancy Astor
#32. 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
#34. 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
#35. Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.
Nancy Astor
#38. From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
Nancy Astor
#39. It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.
Nancy Astor
#41. One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor
#43. If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee,
Nancy Astor
#44. The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.
Nancy Astor
#45. 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
#47. I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
Nancy Astor
#49. Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions
Nancy Astor
#50. I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Nancy Astor
#51. Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.
Nancy Astor
#52. [To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.
Nancy Astor
