Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

"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."

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

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

"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." -"

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

No good deed goes unpunished

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

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

I have resolved to grow old, naturally and gracefully, content in the knowledge that the greatest intellects are the homeliest ones, and that the height of sophistication is simplicity.

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

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

There are no hopeless situations;there are only people who have grown hopeless about then.