Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

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• I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
• Home is where you hang your architect.
• Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military…
• Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
• You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
• Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
• You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
• But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
• To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that…
• Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely…
• [In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
• Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
• Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
• 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’…
• Thoughts have no sex.
• I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
• No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
• It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine…
• H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the…
• The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

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