Clare Boothe Luce Quotes - Page 3

No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

A great man is one sentence.

To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.

If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?

[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.

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

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 forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.

I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.

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