124 Quotes by Clare Boothe Luce

Thoughts have no sex.

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 excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

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 the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.

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.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

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

Home is where you hang your architect.