Clare Boothe Luce Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.”
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“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’ now.”
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“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.”
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“I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.”
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“There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.”
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“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
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“Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.”
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“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”
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“Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.”
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“The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.”
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“A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.”
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“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 takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'”
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“Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.”
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“What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.”
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“Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.”
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“all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!”
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“the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.”
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“Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.”
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“Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.”
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“my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.”
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“Guns know no policy except destruction.”
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“[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.”
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“Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.”
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“The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.”
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“Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.”
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“I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.”
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“Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.”
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“Autobiography is mostly alibiography.”
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“If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.”
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“There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.”
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