14 Quotes by Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

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

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

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

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

(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".

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)

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)

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.

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