Clare Boothe Luce Quotes
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Money, Happiness, Being)
"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Eyes, Man, Old, Self, Woman)
"A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Home, Man, May)
"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Money, Protection, Woman)
"Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Advertising, Cause)
"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes"."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Succeed, Will, Woman)
"But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?"
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: God)
"But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: God)
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Home, Censorship, Charity, End)
"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Courage)
"I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Enemy)
"In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Men, Politics, Women, Letters, Vote)
"It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Reason, Suicide)
"In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Work, Progress, Decision, Day, Deed, Man, Solution)
"Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Woman)
"The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Politicians, Talking)
"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Family, Men, Women, Civilization, Spiritual)
"Thoughts have no sex."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Sex, Thoughts)
"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Men, Women, Congress, Talk)
"They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Men, Women, Congress, Talk)
"There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Wife, Man, Nothing, Woman)
"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Indifference, Nothing)
"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Ego, Lying)
"The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Women, Play)
"You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Mother, Divorce, Sleep)
"The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths."
- Clare Boothe Luce
"Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Computer, Man)
"Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Politicians, Talk)
"No good deed goes unpunished."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Deed)
"Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Nature)
"There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Men)