Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. – 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
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor. – 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
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. – 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
Technological man can’t believe in anything that can’t be measured, taped, or put into a computer. – 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
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected. – Clare Boothe Luce
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife. – Clare Boothe Luce
The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with. – 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
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. – 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
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. – 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
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. – Clare Boothe Luce
You know, that’s the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother. – Clare Boothe Luce
