Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

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

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that — being what it is — it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

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

"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." -"

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

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

No good deed goes unpunished

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

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

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

No good deed goes unpunished.

If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?