Memorable Quotes and quotations from Clare Booth Luce

Clare Booth Luce US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 - 1987)


Clare Booth Luce -
- Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Clare Booth Luce - in H. Faber, The Book of Laws, 1980
- No good deed goes unpunished.

Clare Booth Luce -
- Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

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

Clare Booth Luce -
- They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Clare Booth Luce -
- No good deed goes unpunished.

Clare Booth Luce -
- Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce -
- Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Clare Booth Luce -
- Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.