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But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney. Mr. Wallaces warp of sense and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Apathy
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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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Attitude
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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
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Bravery
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Censorship
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Communism
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
-Clare Boothe Luce, "Newsweek", January 25, 1955
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Conversation
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They say women talk too much. If you ever worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented yb men.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Deception/Lying
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It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Divorce
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Enemy, Enemies
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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.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Envy / Jealousy
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Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Family
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Home
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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Love
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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
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Safety
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. On Eleanor Roosevelt
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Service
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No good deed goes unpunished.
(attributed aphorism)
-Clare Boothe Luce, The Book of Laws, 1980
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Thought
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I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Voting
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In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Women
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-Clare Boothe Luce, (speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.)
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But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
-Clare Boothe Luce
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Books by and about Clare Boothe Luce