Half Quote by Nigel Rees

“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

After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!…

— John F. Akers

“The grandfather clock struck the half hour. She must be away. Glancing from Mama to Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Astor, she did the only…

— Rachel Hauck

“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

“What did I expect, that you would wrap my rib cage with those enormous hands in which horses must be measured, lifting me overhead…

— Lionel Shriver

“(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

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

— Anonymous

Then he reached up and tore my shirtfront open. "Not much to see, is there?" I said, struggling to talk with a crushed windpipe.…

— Kelley Armstrong

“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

“And you would know so much about women, locked up in your castle." "Locked up with eight wives. And sometimes I make house calls…

— Rosamund Hodge

“That man," she said in low but still audible tones, "is an idiot ." "Yes, madam, but he's all we've got." "I may be…

— Loretta Chase

“A woman married. Or she became a nun. Or she died. That was what being a women meant. What then, was she?”

— Katherine Arden