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By AnonymNancy 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!
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By AnonymNancy Astor
Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions
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By AnonymNancy Astor
Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
Grass is growing on the Front Bench.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
I married beneath me. All women do.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
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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By AnonymNancy Astor
I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?
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By AnonymNancy Astor
My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
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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By AnonymNancy Astor
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
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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By AnonymNancy Astor
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
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.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
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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By AnonymNancy Astor
[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.
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By AnonymNancy Astor
What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
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By AnonymNancy Astor
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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By AnonymNancy Astor
Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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By AnonymNancy 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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By AnonymNancy Astor
Am I dying, or is this my birthday?
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