Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

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

Happiness, Money, While

No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Boothe Luce

Good, Goes, Deed

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

Money, Best, Woman

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

Woman, Self, Different

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

Good, Jealous, Reason

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

Women, Men, Talk

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

Work, Good, Decision

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

Men, Hopeless, Situations

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

Women, Politics, Men

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

Home, End, Censorship

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce

Courage, Ladder, Virtues

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
Clare Boothe Luce

Nothing, Harder, Softness

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

Politics, Themselves, Face

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

Women, Woman, Succeed

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

Family, Women, Men

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

Ego, Creative, Social

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
Clare Boothe Luce

Talk, Themselves, Face

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
Clare Boothe Luce

Good, Wife, Woman

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
Clare Boothe Luce

Home, May, Often

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
Clare Boothe Luce

Single, Done, Social

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
Clare Boothe Luce

God, Brain, Give

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

God, Brain, Give

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

Enemy, Off, Personal

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

Sex, Thought, Either

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
Clare Boothe Luce

Woman, Down, Her

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: April 10, 1903

Died: October 9, 1987

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