Clare Luce
Clare Luce
Clare Boothe Lucewas an American author, politician, US Ambassador and notable public conservative figure. She was the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast. Her writings extended from drama and screen scenarios to fiction, journalism, and war reportage. She was the wife of Henry Luce, publisher of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated...
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 March 1903
CityNew York City, NY
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.
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.
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.
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.