Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

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

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

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

Thoughts have no sex.

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

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

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

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

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 the other virtues mount.

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

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.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

A great man is one sentence.

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

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.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

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.

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

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

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

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 have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.

There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.

It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?

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

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

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

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.

Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

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 forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

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

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

Guns know no policy except destruction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.