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.

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  Education, Teacher, Real

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

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  Money, People, Wealth

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• I married beneath me. All women do.

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  Marriage, Women, Divorce

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

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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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• 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.

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  Sex, Believe, Government

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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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• 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.

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  Husband, Drinking, Beer

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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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  Suffering, Politics, Kind

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

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  Peace, People

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

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  Coffee, Wife, Poison

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

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  Men, Years, Length

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

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  Inspirational, Success, Men

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

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  War, Ends

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

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  Lonely, Pioneers, May

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• When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

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  Birthday, Family, Dying

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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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