Viscountess Astor Quotes

#1. The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

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#2. 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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#3. I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

Neil Young

#4. 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)

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#5. The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.

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#6. Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults.

Timothy Simons

#7. The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.

Akshay Vasu

#8. 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.

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#9. Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

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#10. (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".

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#11. Besides, this was the gentle-going hour in which he hated Annawadi least. The pale sun lent the sewage lake a sparkling silver cast, and the parrots nesting at the far side of the lake could still be heard over the jets.

Katherine Boo

#12. should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal. But

Oscar Wilde

#13. And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

Graeme Murphy

#14. Don't expect art and you'll find art in the unexpected.

Philip David Hogan

#15. One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

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#16. The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

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#17. Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

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#18. 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)

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#19. We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know.

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#20. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

Abraham Lincoln

#21. Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

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