Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

Clare Boothe Luce was an American author, playwright, and politician. She wrote several successful plays, including "The Women," and became a prominent figure in American theater. Luce also served as a U.S. Ambassador to Italy and a member of Congress. Her dynamic career and influential works have made her a notable figure in both the literary and political spheres.

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

Reason, Suicide

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

Money, Happiness, Being

3

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

Ego, Lying

3

"Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face."

Politicians, Talk

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

Men, Women, Congress, Talk

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"Thoughts have no sex."

Sex, Thoughts

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

Sex, Thought, Compliment, Man

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

Men, Politics, Women, Letters

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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."

Woman, Women, Play

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"Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset."

Nature,

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

Woman,

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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."

Eye, Eyes, Man, Old, Self

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"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."

Work, Progress, Decision, Day

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

Mother, Divorce, Sleep

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"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."

Indifference, Nothing

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

Men,

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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."

Enemy,

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

Computer, Man

4

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

Advertising, Cause

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

Home, Man, May

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"But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain."

God,

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

Family, Men, Women, Civilization

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

Men, Women, Congress, Talk

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"The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face."

Politicians, Talking

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"No good deed goes unpunished."

Deed,

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

Wife, Man, Nothing, Woman

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

Home, Censorship, Charity, End

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"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"."

Succeed, Will, Woman

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

Money, Protection, Woman

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

Courage,

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

God,