Top 15 Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

"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." -"

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

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

But if God had wanted us to think with just 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.

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

No good deed goes unpunished.

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

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

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.

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.