Nancy Astor Quotes

Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea." Winston Churchill: "Madame,i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!" (Exchange with Winston Churchill)

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

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.

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

Nancy Astor: "Winston, you are a drunk!" Winston Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning." (Reported exchange will Winston Churchill.

I married beneath me. All women do.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

(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".

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Am I dying, or is this my birthday?

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

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

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

I married beneath me. All women do.

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

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

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

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

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)

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

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

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

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

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?" (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)

Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister? [The answer she gave to Churchill when he asked about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball]

The place was a wreck, and Nancy insisted that the first thing we had to do was tear up the rotting linoleum in the kitchen. One layer yielded to another, until finally I came to a bunch of newspapers that had been laid over the warped wooden floor to make it level. They were issues of the New York Daily News and Daily Mirror from 1936. The papers, nearly thirty years old, were smelly and yellow with age, but otherwise readable. The giant black headlines concerned a child custody trial in Los Angeles. The News banner for August 1 screamed ASTOR’S BABY TO BE JUDGE. Next came ASTOR’S SENSATIONS SCARE FILM MOGULS. And by August 8 it was ASTOR DIARY “ECSTACY” (sic), with the subhead G. S. KAUFMAN TRYST BARED. I began piecing the pages together chronologically.

Winston Churchill was famous for his SARCASTIC and SARDONIC comments. Here are two well-known examples: Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are a drunk. Churchill: Madame, you are ugly. In the morning I shall be sober, and you will still be ugly. Nancy Astor: Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison. Churchill: If I were your husband, I would take it.

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.')