Clare Boothe Luce's Quotes

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Thoughts have no sex.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

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.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

No good deed goes unpunished.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

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.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

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.'

But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.