Clare Luce Quotations

Lying increases the creative faculties . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds.

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

Fifty years from now, people will look back upon a Pan American Clipper flight of today as the most romantic voyage of history.

But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney. Mr. Wallaces warp of sense and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

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

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.