Churchill Lady Astor Quotes

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

If I was your wife, I would poison your coffee." "Madam, if I was your husband, I would drink it!

(Exchange with Winston Churchill) Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which the Lady Astor retorted, "Sir, you are not handsome enough to have such fears".

Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, "Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?" (Reported exchange with Winston Churchill)

Classic Insults—The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:     She said, "If you were my husband I'd poison your tea."     He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it." "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill     "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response.

-Sir, se lei fosse mio marito, io le avvelenerei il tè. -Madam, se lei fosse mia moglie, io lo berrei." Dialogo tra Lady Astor e Winston Churchill

If I were married to you, I’d put poison in your coffee,” Lady Astor once famously remarked to Winston Churchill. “If I were married to you,” he replied, “I’d drink it.

Michael and Jill were connoisseurs of personality, transcending politics. They loved Randolph Churchill, who ran two losing campaigns against Michael in Plymouth and they adored Benjamin Disraeli, Mrs. Pankhurst, Lady Astor—all of them affiliated with the Tories. Sometimes, as I would later learn, Michael would go into contorted arguments to support those he liked even when they manifestly stood for views opposite to his own.

Lady Astor: If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea. PM Churchill: Madame, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.

Lady Astor: If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea. PM Churchill: Madame, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.

Lady Astor, la primera mujer que ocupó un escaño en el Parlamento británico, le diría una vez: «Si yo fuera su esposa, pondría veneno en su café», a lo que Churchill replicó: «Si yo fuera su marido, me lo bebería».

Known for her ready wit and often abrasive personal style, [Lady] Astor was said once to have told Winston Churchill that if she were married to him, she would put poison in his coffee. (Churchill supposedly replied: 'If I were married to you, Nancy, I'd drink it.')