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…

— 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…

— 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

Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that…

— Clare Boothe Luce

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be…

— Clare Boothe Luce

Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very…

— Clare Boothe Luce

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some…

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

Guns know no policy except destruction.

— Clare Boothe Luce

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely…

— Clare Boothe Luce

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

— Clare Boothe Luce