Nancy Astor Quotes

“I married beneath me. All women do.”

— Nancy Astor

“Am I dying, or is this my birthday?”

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy Astor

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

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

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy Astor

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

— 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”

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy Astor

“Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.”

— Nancy Astor

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

— 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

“If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee,”

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy 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?"”

— Nancy Astor

“Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?”

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy Astor

Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions

— Nancy Astor

“Grass is growing on the Front Bench.”

— Nancy 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.

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy 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.”

— 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.”

— Nancy 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.

— Nancy Astor

“Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing ...”

— Nancy Astor

“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

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

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy Astor

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

— Nancy Astor