Character Quotes by Clare Boothe Luce

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

— Clare Boothe Luce

the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Home is where you hang your architect.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

— Clare Boothe Luce

I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Thoughts have no sex.

— Clare Boothe Luce

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

— 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

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…

— Clare Boothe Luce

A great man is one sentence.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

— Clare Boothe Luce

I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.

— Clare Boothe Luce