Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

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

“I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.”

“If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.”

“If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.”

“If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.”

“It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.”

“Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.”

“She's in love, bless her. After the child's been married as long as you girls, she may be able to concentrate on vital matters like bridge.”

“The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.”

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

“There's no use dieting in my condition. I've got to wait until I can begin from scratch.”

“They are vulgar and dirty-minded and alien to grace, and I would not, if I could – which I hasten to say I cannot – cross their obscenities with a wit which is foreign to them and gild their futilities with the glamour which by birth and breeding and performance they do not possess.”

“Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.”

“You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.”