Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

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

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

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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.

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

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

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To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.

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

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The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.

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

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

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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.

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

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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

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

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

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

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If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

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

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

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The only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is—and all I could come up with was sex.

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