https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:29:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/astor-nancy/27543/ https://wist.info/astor-nancy/27543/#respond Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:14:10 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27543 The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Nancy Astor (1879-1964) American socialite and English politician [Nancy Witcher Langhorne; Viscountess Astor; Lady Astor]
In the Daily Express (12 Jan 1956) ]]> https://wist.info/astor-nancy/27543/feed/ 0 27543 https://wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/3322/ https://wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/3322/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=3322 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
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Sometimes cited to her autobiography This is My Story (1937), but not found in that book. It seems to have been inspired by a comment she made in 1935: "A snub is the effort of a person who feels superior to make someone else feel inferior. To do so, he has to find someone who can be made to feel inferior." The quotation was in its present form (and attributed to her) by 1940. More information here. ]]> https://wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/3322/feed/ 0 3322