Nancy Astor Quotations

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

Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing ...

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.

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

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.

Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.