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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
The boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.
— Mary Astor
We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know.
— Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.
— Nancy Astor
No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.
— Brooke Astor
Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying? (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)
— Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
Politics? Ha! You couldn't get into politics. You couldn't get in anywhere. You couldn't even get in the men's room at the Astor!
— Jean Harlow
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.
— Nancy Astor The Viscountess 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
I don't think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.
— Mary Astor
From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
— Nancy Astor
Grass is growing on the Front Bench.
— 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
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
— Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.
— Nancy Astor
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
— Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
I am sure that you will never end war with wars.
— Nancy Astor
Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing ...
— Nancy Astor
Am I dying, or is this my birthday?
— Nancy Astor
When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.
— Brooke Astor
Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.
— Mary Astor
Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.
— Ernest Thompson Seton
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 can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world
except a woman-governed world. — Nancy Astor
except a woman-governed world. — Nancy Astor
I married beneath me. All women do.
— Nancy Astor
Money is like manure; it should be spread around
— Brooke Astor
Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
— Nancy Astor
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
— Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
Oh?" Tom's eyebrows shot up high. "What an interesting career choice. And may I ask what division you were in?
— Marie Astor
I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.
— Brooke Astor
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
— Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
— Brooke Astor
I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city.
— Brooke Astor
Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?
— Nancy Astor
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
— Nancy Astor
It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
— Mary Astor
The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ...
— Mary 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
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
— Lady Nancy Astor
For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet.
— Astor Piazzolla
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
— Nancy Astor
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. — Winston S. Churchill
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it. — Winston S. Churchill
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
— Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.
— Mary Astor
One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
— Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
— Nancy Astor
If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee,
— Nancy Astor
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
— Mary Astor