Viscountess Quotes & Sayings

But Lord Blatherard Osmo was able at last to devote all of his time to Novi Pazar. Early in 1939, he was discovered mysteriously suffocated in a bathtub full of tapioca pudding, at the home of a Certain Viscountess. Some have seen in this the hand of the Firm. — Thomas Pynchon

Will's voice dropped. "Everyone makes mistakes, Jem."
"Yes," said Jem. "You just make more of them than most people."
"I - "
"You hurt everyone," said Jem. "Everyone whose life you touch."
"Not you," Will whispered. "I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to
hurt you."
Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. "Will - "
"You can't never forgive me," Will said in disbelief, hearing the
panic tinging his own voice. "I'd be - "
"Alone?" Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. "And
whose fault is that? — Cassandra Clare

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

Sweat, malice, and hunger pour from me. This is release, or maybe it's just a plea for release. — Rachel Cohn

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

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. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

Stevie Wonder doing [carpool karaoke] it was a massive turning point because he's Stevie Wonder. Like, there's no one else in the world who can go, I don't really want to do it. And you go oh, so it's good enough for Stevie Wonder but it's not good enough for you? — James Corden

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement. — Dennis Bergkamp

The only thing I like about rich people is their money. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance. — Gary Weiss

When we find the courage to face our pain, it always helps heal others, as well as ourselves". — Phyllis Edgerly Ring

Every right decision you create opens a wide gate to your destiny. — Euginia Herlihy

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

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 Churchill) — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

Love the people who love you back. — Laura Ruby

Without contradiction, there would be no life, no movement, no progress, a deadly slumber of all forces. — Schelling

I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult. — Og Mandino

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

I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates. — Jonathan Krohn

The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such intense tyrannical passion in the gesture that the marquis relinquished the doorknob and came back. — Honore De Balzac

(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 such fears". — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

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

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) — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.' — Gary Calamar

You're no longer a wallflower, nor a virgin, nor the helpless child who had to endure life with the Maybricks. You're a viscountess with a sizable fortune, and a scoundrel of a husband. Whose rules will you adhere to now? — Lisa Kleypas

That's what prayers are ... it's frightened people trying to make friends with the bully! — Terry Pratchett

Connected with my fable - that this was the very gentleman whose negligent servant left behind him that collection of washing-bills, resulting from a long visit at Northanger, by which my heroine was involved in one of her most alarming adventures. The influence of the viscount and viscountess in their brother's behalf was assisted by that right understanding of Mr. Morland's circumstances which, as soon as the general would allow himself to be informed, they were qualified to give. It taught him that he had been scarcely more misled by Thorpe's first boast of the family wealth than by his subsequent malicious overthrow of it; that — Jane Austen

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

Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252) — Suzanne Collins