Login | Register Share:
  Guess quote | Authors | Isles | Contacts

Clare Boothe Luce [1903-1987] American
Rank: 101
Dramatist, Former U.S. Congressman


Clare Boothe Luce was an American author, politician, U.S. Ambassador and public conservative figure. She was the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. 

Politics, Women, Good, Money, Courage, Happiness, Home, Work



QuoteTagsRank
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. Courage
101
No good deed goes unpunished. Good
102
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. Good, Work
103
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
104
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.' Women
105
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Happiness, Money
106
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery. Home
107
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. Politics
108
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
109
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.
110
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
111
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own. Money
112
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. Women
113
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
114
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
115
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected. Politics, Women
116
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
117
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
118
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
119
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
120
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. Politics
121
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
122
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
123
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
124
It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
125
Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
126
I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
201
Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
202
Thoughts have no sex.
203
But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.
204

The script ran 0.001 seconds.