Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

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

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

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

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.

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.

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

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

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.

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.'

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

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

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

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

Home is where you hang your architect.

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.

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

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

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