Every-day-life Quote by Jane Austen

“Sincerity charged her every word like a bombshell that she launched in numbers amounting to a blitzkrieg he was powerless to withstand. She blew…

— D.E. Sievers

“She was one of those shallow people who rewrote their own history and believed in the absolute truth of their own version.”

— Santa Montefiore

“Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl; skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with…

— Charles Dickens

“(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

“He is still, at times, astonished by her. She may be the most intelligent woman in England, he thinks. Her books may be read…

— Michael Cunningham

“Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister? [The answer she gave to Churchill when he asked about what disguise he should wear to a…

— Nancy Astor

“Nancy Astor: "Winston, you are a drunk!" Winston Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning." (Reported exchange…

— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

“Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing ever happened. —SIR…

— Gary S Bobroff

“she had fought hotly against injustice, vanity, and blind, towering stupidity. Occasionally, on the battlefield where death was a reality, she had won. But…

— Anne Perry

“The world could not define her. She was ineffably, inimitably, and incredibly herself!”

— Avijeet Das

“I just want to be able to look at Blair and see the woman I fell in love with. Not the woman who did…

— Zoe McKnight