Clare Boothe Luce Quotes
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Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.
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Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.
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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.
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If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.
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What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
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But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
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All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.
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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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Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.
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Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
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Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.
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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
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[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.
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A woman can produce what no man can: a child.
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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
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Home is where you hang your architect.
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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?
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my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.
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They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.
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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.
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
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Clare Boothe Luce
- Born: March 10, 1903
- Died: October 9, 1987
- Occupation: Former U.S. Congresswoman