Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

American - Dramatist March 10, 1903 - October 9, 1987

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

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Courage Ladder Virtues Which Other

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

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Ego Creative Lying Social

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

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Women Politics Men You

No good deed goes unpunished.

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Good Good Deed Deed Goes Unpunished

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

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Men Hopeless Only About

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

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Happiness Money You Comfortable

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.

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Work Good Day Man

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

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Good You Jealous Suicide

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

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Home End Charity Like

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

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Women Politics Men Vote

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

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Eyes Mirror Man Woman

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.'

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Women I Am Woman Succeed

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

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Blue Face Red White

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

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Best Money Woman Own

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

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Good Man Wife Woman

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

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Free Never Oppressed Strengths

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

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Family Women Men Spiritual

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

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Me Enemy Personal Miss

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

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Home Man May Castle

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.

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Myself Women Play Head

Thoughts have no sex.

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

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God Think Brain Why

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

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Good Mother Sleep You

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

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Advertising Done More Single

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

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Politics Blue Face Red White

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

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Nature Frozen Asset Abhors

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