Nancy Astor

Puzzles

• One reason I don't ___ is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
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• The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to ___.
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• The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or ___.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Nancy Astor?

  • → There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
  • → I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
  • → The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
  • → As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Nancy Astor.

  • → The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
  • → People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
  • → The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
  • → Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Nancy Astor.

  • → Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
  • → The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
  • → The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
  • → Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Nancy Astor. Which one?

  • → We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
  • → Women do talk too much, but, even then, they don’t tell half they know.
  • → Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
  • → Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
  
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