Nancy Astor Quotes

Nancy Astor — British Politician born on May 19, 1879, died on May 02, 1964

Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH was the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat. She was an American-born English socialite who made a second marriage to Waldorf Astor as a young woman in England. After he succeeded to the peerage and entered the House of Lords, she entered politics, in 1919 winning his former seat in Plymouth and becoming the first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons. Her first husband was an American, Robert Gould Shaw II, and they divorced. She served in Parliament as a representative of the Conservative Party for Plymouth Sutton until 1945, when she was persuaded to step down... (wikipedia)

I married beneath me, all women do.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.