Nancy Astor Quotes

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.

I'm a pragmatist.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

I'm very practical and realistic.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Dickens was very practical and sensible.

You've got to be realistic.

We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.

I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.

I'm pragmatic.

I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.

I try to, pardon the expression, stay with my feet on the ground.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

I'm very much a realist.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

God save me from idealists.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

A world without love would be no world.

A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and noble sentiment ought to be first tested in the kitchen-and then in bed, of course.

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.