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38 Top Clare Boothe Luce Quotes On Politics, Courage, Charity, Women And More

Famous As: Author, Politician
Born On: March 10, 1903
Died On: October 9, 1987
Born In: New York, New York, United States
Died At Age: 84
Clare Boothe Luce was a distinguished American politician, public conservative figure and diplomat. She also became the first American woman who was assigned major ambassadorial positions abroad. She was also a prolific author and her play ‘The Women’ is considered as her best work which had an all-female cast. Her thoughts, writings, viewpoints and opinions covered a wide range of subjects ranging from fiction, drama, journalism, war reportage and screen scenarios. Though she supported the Anglo-American alliance in World War II yet she openly criticised the British colonialism in India. She was also one of the most powerful, assertive and charming public speaker. We have compiled some quotable quotes and sayings by the popular leader which have been excerpted from her speeches, work, thoughts and life. Go through the quotes and thoughts by Clare Boothe Luce.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

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

Clare Boothe Luce
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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.

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." -

Clare Boothe Luce
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

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

Clare Boothe Luce
If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?

If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?

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

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

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.

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

Clare Boothe Luce
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce
No good deed goes unpunished.

No good deed goes unpunished.

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

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

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

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

Clare Boothe Luce
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Clare Boothe Luce
Thoughts have no sex.

Thoughts have no sex.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clare Boothe Luce
But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.

But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.

Clare Boothe Luce
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

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

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

Clare Boothe Luce
Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clare Boothe Luce
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clare Boothe Luce