A Conversation for Good Put-downs
Nancy Astor
Tam Started conversation Jul 15, 2002
When allowed to precede a woman through a doorway after the comment "Age before beauty", Nancy Astor hoovered in, replying "Pearls before swine".
Nancy Astor
Bels - an incurable optimist. A1050986 Posted Jul 15, 2002
That one is usually attributed to Dorothy Parker as a retort to Clare Boothe Luce.
Nancy Astor
Bels - an incurable optimist. A1050986 Posted Jul 16, 2002
Mind you, this put-down _is_ by Lady Astor:
I married beneath me. All women do.
And she was the woman to whom Churchill replied, 'And if I were your husband, I would drink it,' when she remarked 'If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.'
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