Clare Boothe Luce > Quotes

“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.”
― 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." -”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.”
― Clare Luce Booth

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

“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.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

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

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Clare Booth Luce

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

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

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

“The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“Don't worry about your studies. When you want to do them well you will do them superbly. But for the moment the main thing is to get what little happiness there is in this wartorn world because "these are only good old days" now.”
― Clare Boothe Luce