Nancy Astor Quotes

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

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

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

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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 woman…

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

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

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No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilisation has failed so lamentably is that it has had one-sided government.

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The stupidest thing women do is to continually succumb to changing fashions. What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?

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Nancy Astor: If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!
Churchill: And if I were your husband I would drink it.

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

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It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

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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.

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

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I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.

Nancy Astor