Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

No good deed goes unpunished.

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Clare Boothe Luce

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.'

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Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

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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Clare Boothe Luce

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.

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Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

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Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

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

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Clare Boothe Luce

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.