Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

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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.

- Clare Boothe Luce

Politics, Say, Congress, Filibuster

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Women, Say, Congress, Filibuster

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Men, Only, About, Hopeless

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

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More, Other, Social, Unrest

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Castle, May, His, Nursery

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

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Courage, Other, Which, Mount

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

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Woman, Appreciate, His, Dose

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Women, Politics, Type, Lick

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

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Civilization, Still, Any, Economic

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

Myself, Play, Them, Deserved

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Man, Computer, Measured, Technological

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

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Mirror, Woman, Some, Escape

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

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Ego, Social, Increases, Faculties

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

Woman, Will, Say, Unusual

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Good, About, Your, Divorce

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

Work, Decision, Other, Deed

No good deed goes unpunished.

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Good, Goes, Unpunished, Deed

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

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Suicide, Jealous, Reason, Good Reason

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

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Never, Strengths, Necessary, Oppressed

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Charity, Like, Unlike, Censorship

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Woman, Knocked, Her, Supremacy

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Enemy, Personal, Them, Helped

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Red, Politics, Face, Politicians

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Red, Face, White, Politicians

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

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Nature, Frozen, Asset, Abhors

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

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Thought, Think, I Think, Thinks

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Happiness, Money, Miserable, Comfortable

Thoughts have no sex.

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Thoughts, Sex

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

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Money, Woman, Her, Little Money

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

- Clare Boothe Luce

Think, Give, Wanted, Brain

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