Clare Boothe Luce Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

Guns know no policy except destruction.

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

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

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.

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.

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.

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

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.