Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Clare Boothe Luce
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American dramatist Clare Boothe Luce.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
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.'
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.
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
They say 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.
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
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.
Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
Thoughts have no sex.
Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.
Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
A great man is one sentence.
There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.
If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.
Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.
What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
Home is where you hang your architect.
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.
The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.
No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.
When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.
all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.
Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.
Guns know no policy except destruction.
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
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