Nancy Astor Quotes - Page 2

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• It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

  Nancy Astor

  Inspirational, Success, Men

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• There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

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  Women, Politics, Problem

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• If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.

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  Coffee, Wife, Poison

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• A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

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  Fear, Angel, Fool

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• What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?

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  Men, Years, Length

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• Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions

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  Drinking, Giving, Exhibitions

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• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

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  Lonely, Pioneers, May

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• Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.

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  Want, Cabinets, Ministers

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• [To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.

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  Groups, Prisoner, Wanted

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• My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

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  Running, Vitality, Vigor

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• When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

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  Birthday, Family, Dying

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• 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.

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  Getting Older, Want, Able

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• Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.

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  Drinking, Giving, Promise

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• Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

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  Growing, Benches, Grass

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• I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.

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  Beer, Glasses, Alcohol

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• Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?

  Nancy Astor

  Dying, My Birthday, Last Words

  In J. Grigg Nancy Astor (1980) p. 184

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