Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

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• There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

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  Positive, Hope, Men

  Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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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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  Enemy, May, Who We Are

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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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  Inspirational, Strong Women, Independent Women

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• Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

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  Life, Motivational, Courage

  "Clare Boothe Luce". Reader's Digest, May 1979.

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• Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

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  Life, Money, Miserable

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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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  Thinking, Majority, Prejudice

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• [In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

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  Political, Deeds, Good Deeds

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• Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.

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  Party, Sides, Remember

  Quoted in James C. Humes, Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous (1978)

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• I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

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  Thinking, Perfectly Natural, Unusual

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• 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.

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  World, Littles, Old Days

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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.

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  Sex, Men, Thinking

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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.

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  Opiates, Might, Communism

  1955 In Newsweek, 24 Jan.

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• If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

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  Mean, Age, Crowns

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• Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

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  Vacuums, Head Of State, Statesmen

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• all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

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  Rocks, Hands, World

  Slam the Door Softly (1970)

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• If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

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  Baby, Children, Men

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.6, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

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  Appreciation, Women, Appreciate

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.26, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

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  Money, Littles, Wealth

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• There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.

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  Sex, Men, President

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• Home is where you hang your architect.

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  Badass, Home, Bad Ass

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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.

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  Love, Women, Eye

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.25, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

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  Men, Thinking, Uterus

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• They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

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  Women, Memorable, Politics

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• The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.

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  Powerful, Criticism, Defense

  Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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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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  Business, Social Unrest, Done

  "Ann Coulter, the pin-up model" by Elana Schor, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2008.

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