Anecdotes Quote by Caitlin Moran

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.

— Cynthia Payne

“The only reason for the many unknown excuses I had to make up to get out of the parties, school reunions, fake get together,…

— Bhavik Sarkhedi

“(Exchange with Winston Churchill) Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which…

— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing…

— Sebastian Horsley

“Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by…

— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

“The smaller the dinner table, the better the side conversation: you can gossip about the guests without fearing whether you will be overheard. It…

— Bauvard

“Every so often I wonder why I didn’t become a restaurant critic. They get free dinners. Being a feminist journalist, I get free death…

— Laurie Penny

When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to provoke such…

— Anne Sebba

There's no point meeting somebody with a meat cleaver the moment they open their mouth - because they're going to clam up, you're going…

— Emily Maitlis

“Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent .…

— Oscar Wilde

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

— Calvin Klein

“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…

— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor