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 dont want to do them. – Nancy Astor
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything… or nothing. – Nancy Astor
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. – Nancy Astor
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman. – Nancy Astor
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. – Muriel Spark, Territorial Rights, 1979