List of Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

In Politics Women Type The Letters, Lick The Stamps, Distribute The Pamphlets And Get Out The Vote. Men Get Elected.

I Know All About Violence And Physical Abuse Because My First Husband Used To Beat Me Severely When He Got Drunk. Once, I Can Remember Coming Home From A Party And Walking Up Our Vast Marble Staircase At The Fifth Avenue House While He Was Striking Me. I Thought, If I Just Gave Him One Shove Down The Staircase I Would Be Rid Of Him Forever.

I Don't Have Any Warm Personal Enemies. All The Sobs Have Died.

Technological Man Can't Believe In Anything That Can't Be Measured, Taped, Or Put Into A Computer.

You Know, That's The Only Good Thing About Divorce; You Get To Sleep With Your Mother.

Thoughts Have No Sex.

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 Forebearance, The Nobility, The Romance, The Idealism, That-being What It Is-it Falls So Short Of In Fact And In Deed.

If A Woman's Got Any Instincts, She Feels When Her Husband's Off The Reservation.

I Am For Lifting Everyone Off The Social Bottom. In Fact, I Am For Doing Away With The Social Bottom Altogether.

It Is Matrimonial Suicide To Be Jealous When You Have A Really Good Reason.

Young Men Still Desire Women As Much As Ever, Even Though They Don't Want To Marry Them As Much.

I Have Never Met A Man [in The Military], In Or Out Of Uniform, Who Ever Said, "let's Use The Missiles." They Are Even More Terrified That The Bishops, Because A Great Many Of Them Don't Expect To Go To Heaven, Which At Least The Bishops Do.