Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

No good deed goes unpunished.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

"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."

No good deed goes unpunished

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

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

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

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.