After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
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Lady Nancy Astor, Viscountess: 'If you were my husband, Winston, I should flavour your coffee with poison.' Winston Churchill: 'If I WERE your husband, madam, I should drink it.'
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
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I married beneath me. All women do.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I married beneath me - all women do.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.
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I married beneath me; all women do.
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