Quotes by Luce, Clare Boothe

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss >>

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self i >>

You see few people here in America who really care very much about liv >>

Quotations about Lies and Lying

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. >>

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, bu >>

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tell >>

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. 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 -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe