Clare Boothe Luce quotes

No good deed goes unpunished. (Clare Boothe Luce)
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. View quote
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes. View quote
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It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason. View quote
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother. View quote
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. View quote
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world. View quote
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Thoughts have no sex. View quote
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there. View quote
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. View quote
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. (Clare Boothe Luce)
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are no hopeless situations there are only people who have grown hopeless about them. View quote
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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". View quote
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I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not. View quote
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Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor. View quote
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A woman's best protection is a little money of her own. View quote
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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. View quote
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Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out. View quote
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. (Clare Boothe Luce)
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths. View quote
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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery. View quote
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Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. View quote
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals. View quote
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