Top 48 Quotes & Sayings by Nancy Astor

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945.

British - Politician | May 19, 1879 - May 2, 1964

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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Nancy Astor

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

Nancy Astor

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

Nancy Astor

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

Nancy Astor

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

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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

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

Nancy Astor

I married beneath me, all women do.

Nancy Astor

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

Nancy Astor

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

Nancy Astor

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Nancy Astor

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Nancy Astor

Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.

Nancy Astor

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

Nancy Astor

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

Nancy Astor

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.

Nancy Astor

Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.

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I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.

Nancy Astor

[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

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

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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.

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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

Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

Nancy Astor

[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.

Nancy Astor

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

Nancy Astor

My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Nancy Astor

Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.

Nancy Astor

It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

Nancy Astor

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

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

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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