Quotes from Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

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

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

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

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

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

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

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

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. -- On Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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." -

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

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

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

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

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

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

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Don't worry about your studies. When you want to do them well you will do them superbly. But for the moment the main thing is to get what little happiness there is in this wartorn world because "these are only good old days" now.

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

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

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.