Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

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

Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.

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.'

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

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

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

I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.

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

The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.

Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

A woman can produce what no man can: a child.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

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

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

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

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

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

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

Home is where you hang your architect.