Clare Boothe Luce

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.

If God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

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

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

There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

I was wondering today what the religion of the country is— and all I could come up with was sex.

In the final analysis there is no solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterances and the day’s good deed.

Much of … his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.