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, Viscountess Astor
Topics: Age
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Topics: Fear, Anxiety
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Topics: Health, Women, Blame
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Topics: Blame
Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Topics: Dreams
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Topics: Men & Women, Women, Men
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Topics: Aging, Age
One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Topics: Drunkenness, Alcohol, Alcoholism
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Topics: Wealth
The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
I married beneath me. All women do.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Topics: Women, Marriage
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Topics: Change
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer—into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
—Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Topics: Education
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- T. S. Eliot American-born British Poet
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- Enoch Powell British Politician
- Harold Macmillan British Head of State
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