Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

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

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

Home, End, Charity, Censorship, Begin

No good deed goes unpunished. - Clare Boothe Luce

No good deed goes unpunished. Clare Boothe Luce

Good, Good Deed, Deed, Goes, Unpunished

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

Men, Hopeless, Only, Who, Grown, About

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

Eyes, Mirror, Man, Woman, Self, Escape

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

Home, Man, Outside, May, Inside, Castle

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, I Am, Succeed, She, Say

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

Creative, Ego, Lying, Social, Contacts

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

Courage, Ladder, Virtues, Other, Which

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

Good, Jealous, Suicide, You, Reason

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

Best, Money, Woman, Her, Protection, Own

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

Me, Warm, Enemy, Personal, Left, Off

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

Women, Politics, Men, Know, You, Say

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, Vote, Letters, Out

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, Man, Decision, Progress, Day

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

Good, Man, Wife, Woman, Appreciate, Like

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

God, Brain, Think, Why, Give, Us

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

Advertising, Done, More, Single, Social

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

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

Happiness, Money, You, Comfortable, Buy

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

Politics, Blue, Red, Face, Talking, Were

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. Clare Boothe Luce

Nature, Frozen, Asset, Abhors

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

Women, Myself, Meat, Play, Head, Who

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

Blue, Red, Face, White, Talk, Themselves

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, Know, You, Say, Too Much

Thoughts have no sex. Clare Boothe Luce

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

Free, Never, Strengths, Oppressed

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

Woman, Down, Her, Knocked, Out, Male

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