No good deed goes unpunished.

Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

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

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, Decision, Other

No good deed goes unpunished. - Clare Boothe Luce

No good deed goes unpunished. Clare Boothe Luce

Good, Goes, Unpunished

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

Charity, Like, Unlike

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

Courage, Other, Which

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, Miserable

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

Mirror, Woman, Some

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

Woman, Say, Will

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

Nature, Frozen, Abhors

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

May, Castle, His

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

Jealous, Reason, Good Reason

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, Type

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

Social, Faculties, Increases

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

Think, Give, Wanted

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

Woman, Her, Supremacy

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

Men, Only, About

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

Civilization, Still, Any

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

Good, About, Your

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

More, Social, Other

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

Politics, Say, Filibuster

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

Politics, Red, Face

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

Myself, Play, Them

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

Red, Face, White

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

Money, Woman, Her

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, Congress, Filibuster

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

Woman, Dose, His

Thoughts have no sex. Clare Boothe Luce

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