Clare Boothe Luce

(310 votes)   Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(264 votes)   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 forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(239 votes)   You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(232 votes)   Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(224 votes)   Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(181 votes)   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
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(181 votes)   No good deed goes unpunished.

Clare Boothe Luce

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(177 votes)   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

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(145 votes)   No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. [On Eleanor Roosevelt]

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(143 votes)   You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(130 votes)   A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(130 votes)   Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(128 votes)   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
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(120 votes)   Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [With] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(114 votes)   In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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