Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?” (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)

We women talk too much, but even then we don’t tell half what we know.

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

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 with Winston Churchill)

(Exchange with Winston Churchill)Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which the Lady Astor retorted, “Sir, you are not handsome enough to have...

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

Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, “Why don’t you come sober, Prime Minister?”(Reported exchange with Winston...

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