Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

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

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

Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

Time comes when every man's got to feel something new
when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

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

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

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

All history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

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.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

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

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.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

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

Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.

It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?

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

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.

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

My definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

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

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." -

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

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

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.

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

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

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

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.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

Don't worry about your studies. When you want to do them well you will do them superbly. But for the moment the main thing is to get what little happiness there is in this wartorn world because "these are only good old days" now.

Home is where you hang your architect.

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

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.

I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.

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

[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

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.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

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

If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

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

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

I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.