Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

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.

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

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

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

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

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

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

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

There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.

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

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

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

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

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

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

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

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

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

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.

A woman can produce what no man can: a child.

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

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.

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

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

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.

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

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

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

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?

[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.