1.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Nancy Astor
2.
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
Nancy Astor
3.
I married beneath me. All women do.
Nancy Astor
4.
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor
5.
Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
Nancy Astor
6.
[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
7.
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
8.
The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.
Nancy Astor
9.
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
10.
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor
11.
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
Nancy Astor
12.
From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
Nancy Astor
13.
People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.
Nancy Astor
14.
If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.
Nancy Astor
15.
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
16.
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
17.
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
Nancy Astor
18.
I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.
Nancy Astor
19.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
Nancy Astor
20.
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor
21.
My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
Nancy Astor
22.
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
23.
We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know
Nancy Astor
24.
[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.
Nancy Astor
25.
Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.
Nancy Astor
26.
I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.
Nancy Astor
27.
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
Nancy Astor
28.
Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.
Nancy Astor
29.
I am sure that you will never end war with wars.
Nancy Astor
30.
It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.
Nancy Astor
31.
Grass is growing on the Front Bench.
Nancy Astor
32.
Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions
Nancy Astor
33.
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
34.
Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?
Nancy Astor
35.
Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.
Nancy Astor
36.
It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.
Nancy Astor
37.
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
38.
What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
Nancy Astor
39.
Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
Nancy Astor
40.
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
41.
Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.
Nancy Astor