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Quotes by Clare Booth Luce

  • No good deed goes unpunished.
  • Censorship, like charity, should begin at home but, unlike charity, it should end there.
  • 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.'
  • You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
  • Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
  • Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.