Quotes by Clare Boothe Luce

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

“Money cant buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while youre being miserable.”

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

“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some womans eyes.”

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

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

“There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.”

“I dont have a warm personal enemy left. Theyve all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.”

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

“A womans best protection is a little money of her own.”

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

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

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

There is no other solution to mans progress but the days honest work the days honest decisions the days generous utterances and the days good deed.

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

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

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