Nancy Astor Quotes

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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.

  Nancy Astor

  Education, Teacher, Real

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

  Nancy Astor

  Money, People, Wealth

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

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  Strong Women, World, Safe

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• [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

  Men, Doors, Europe

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• I married beneath me. All women do.

  Nancy Astor

  Marriage, Women, Divorce

  Quoted in Dictionary of National Biography 1961 - 1970 (1981)

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

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  Progress, Trying, Hopeless

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

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  Time, Educational, Drinking

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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

  Sex, Believe, Government

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

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  Common Humanity, Common Sense, World

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

  Nancy Astor

  Husband, Drinking, Beer

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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

  Sisterhood, Men, Rubbish

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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.

  Nancy Astor

  Suffering, Politics, Kind

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

  Nancy Astor

  Peace, People

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

  Nancy Astor

  War, Ends

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• 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

  Years, Age, Would Be

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

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  Strong Women, Half, Too Much

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• From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.

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  Stars, Thinking, America

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

  Nancy Astor

  Men, World, I Can

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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

  Funny, Women, Empowering

  My Two Countries ch. 1 (1923)

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• I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

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  Funny, Children, Age

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

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  Inspirational, Change, Memorable

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

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  Fear, Angel, Fool

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• What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?

  Nancy Astor

  Men, Years, Length

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• If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.

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  Coffee, Wife, Poison

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

  Nancy Astor

  Lonely, Pioneers, May

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