Nancy Astor Quotes

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• The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
• Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
• One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
• Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
• The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
• Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.
• Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?
• When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
• A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
• I married beneath me. All women do.
• 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…
• It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.
• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
• My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
• If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee,
• The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.
• I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.
• 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
• 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…

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