Nancy Astor quotes:

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

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

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

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

[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!

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

Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

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

Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.

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

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

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

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

My vigor, 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.

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

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

Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing ...

Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions

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

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

I married beneath me. All women do.

I married beneath me, all women do.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

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.

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

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

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?