A hospital is no place to be sick.
--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.
--Clare Boothe Luce
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
--Clare Boothe Luce
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
--Clare Boothe Luce
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
--Clare Boothe Luce
All history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
--Clare Boothe Luce
But if God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?
--Clare Boothe Luce
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
--Clare Boothe Luce
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
--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.
--Clare Boothe Luce
I refuse the compliment that I think like a man; thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
--Clare Boothe Luce
I'm in my anecdotage.
--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.
--Clare Boothe Luce
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.
--Clare Boothe Luce
It is ridiculous to think you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it.
--Clare Boothe Luce
It's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
--Clare Boothe Luce
Love is a verb.
--Clare Boothe Luce
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
--Clare Boothe Luce
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
--Clare Boothe Luce
Nature abhors a virgin- a frozen asset.
--Clare Boothe Luce
No good deed goes unpunished.
--Clare Boothe Luce
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
--Clare Boothe Luce
Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
--Clare Boothe Luce
The oppressed never free themselves- they do not have the necessary strengths.
--Clare Boothe Luce
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
(on campaigning).
--Clare Boothe Luce
There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
--Clare Boothe Luce
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
--Clare Boothe Luce
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
--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.
--Clare Boothe Luce
Widowhood is a fringe benefit of marriage.
--Clare Boothe Luce
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
--Clare Boothe Luce
You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
--Clare Boothe Luce
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
--Clare Boothe Luce
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