Clare Boothe Luce quotes

Clare Boothe Luce was an American author, politician, and diplomat, widely recognized for her wit and influential career. Known for her groundbreaking work as a playwright and as the first American woman appointed as a major ambassador. She broke barriers for women in public life and inspired generations through her leadership and accomplishments. Here are 34 of her quotes:

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

Thoughts have no sex.

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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.

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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".

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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.

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Clare Boothe Luce

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Clare Boothe Luce

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

Clare Boothe Luce