Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Luce

‘’No good deed goes unpunished’’. 

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

‘’A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes’’. 

‘’Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable’’. 

‘’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.' 

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

‘’A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery’’. 

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

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer’’. 

‘’I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me’’. 

‘’Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor’’. 

LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH CLARE BOOTHE LUCE - National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 95940 / Local Identifier LW-LW-375 - Television interview. DVD copied by IASL Master Scanner Katie Filbert.