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Quotes by Clare Boothe Luce

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
– Clare Boothe Luce
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
– Clare Boothe Luce
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
– Clare Boothe Luce
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
But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
– Clare Boothe Luce
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
– Clare Boothe Luce
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
– Clare Boothe Luce
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
– Clare Boothe Luce
I'm in my anecdotage.
– Clare Boothe Luce
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
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
– Clare Boothe Luce
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
– Clare Boothe Luce
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
– Clare Boothe Luce
No good deed goes unpunished.
– Clare Boothe Luce
Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
– Clare Boothe Luce
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
– Clare Boothe Luce
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
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
– Clare Boothe Luce
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
– Clare Boothe Luce
They are vulgar and dirty-minded and alien to grace, and I would not, if I could, which I hasten to say I cannot, cross their obscenities with a wit which is foreign to them and gild their futilities with the glamour which by birth and breeding and performance they do not possess.
– Clare Boothe Luce
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
– Clare Boothe Luce
Thoughts have no sex.
– Clare Boothe Luce
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
– Clare Boothe Luce
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
– Clare Boothe Luce