Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

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

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

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

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

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.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

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.'

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

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

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

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

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

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

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.

Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

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

A woman can produce what no man can: a child.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

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

[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.

If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.

A great man is one sentence.

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.