Top 100 Luce Quotes
#1. You're one of them de Luce girls over from Buckshaw. I'd rec'nize them cold blue eyes anywhere.
Alan Bradley
#2. Daniel stretched his arm around her and guided her head toward his shoulder. Little - known fact about angels: We make excellent pillows.
Lauren Kate
#3. It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Clare Boothe Luce
#4. The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.
Ron Luce
#5. Evil is real but its opposite, Goodness, is also real. And, thank God, it too is contagious.
Patricia Luce Chapman
#6. Luce's new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent.
Charles Frazier
#7. Daniel murmured something like yes, he wouldn't miss it,but he was clearly distracted. He kept looking away from the woman. His eyes darted around the lawn, as if he sensed Luce behind the roses.
When his gaze swept over the bushes where she crouched,they flashed the most intense shade of violet.
Lauren Kate
#8. After such an emotional day with her own parents, the thought nearly brought Luce to her knees with sadness. Daniel was alone in the world.
Lauren Kate
#10. Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together
Luce Irigaray
#11. You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Clare Boothe Luce
#12. As a proponent of big-picture analysis, media pioneer and Time founder Henry Luce asserted, there was more money to be made in slow news than fast news.
David Halberstam
#13. Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.
Henry R. Luce
#14. [On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?
Dorothy Parker
#15. There were no monsters, her parents assured her, but Luce's repeated insistence on the presence of something wobbly and dark had gotten her several appointments with the family eye doctor, and then glasses, and then appointments with the ear doctor after she made the mistake of describing
Lauren Kate
#16. I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
Henry R. Luce
#17. Luce even analyzed my prose style to see if I wrote in a linear, masculine way, or in a circular, feminine one.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#18. I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.
William Luce
#19. They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.
Clare Boothe Luce
#20. Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
Clare Boothe Luce
#21. Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.
Clare Boothe Luce
#22. O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#23. To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
Clare Boothe Luce
#24. I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.
Clare Boothe Luce
#25. It's such a beautiful question, Luce. I adore you for asking it, and I wish I could explain it better. All I can tell you is this: The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
Lauren Kate
#26. What if you find your soul mate ... at the wrong time?
Lauren Kate
#28. [After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.
Dorothy Parker
#29. If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
Clare Boothe Luce
#30. Luce,' she says, 'I don't want my diary entry tomorrow to be: Stayed out all night. Went to prison. I have this urge to go home and watch TV with my parents and be completely boring.
Cath Crowley
#31. Trial by fire.' Roland whistled, patting Luce on the back. 'Show no fear.
Lauren Kate
#33. You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Clare Boothe Luce
#34. Jealous?' Luce asked. They were alone now. She threw her arms around his broad shoulders and looked deep into his violet eyes. 'Why would you be jealous?'
'Because,' he said, rubbing his hands across her back. 'Your dance card is full. For all eternity.
Lauren Kate
#35. If only your ears were not so formless, so clogged with meaning(s), that they are closed to what does not in some way echo the already heard" (p. 113, The Sex Which is Not One)
Irigaray, Luce
#37. Do you want to sit down?" she asked Olianna, who lurked directly behind Luce with her arrow at the ready.
"I prefer to stand guard-"
"Yeah, I don't guess you can really sit guard," Luce mumbled. "Ha-ha.
Lauren Kate
#38. I know, and I do trust you, but when you said it was a surprise I thought you meant 'Here, Luce. I got you a unicorn.' not 'Here, Luce, jump in the river.
Jay McLean
#39. I think about her and only her. I count the seconds until she'll be with me
again. I choose her, as she chooses me.
Lauren Kate
#40. Was it wrong to be so deceitful? Well, yes, it probably was. But if God hadn't wanted me to be the way I am, He would have arranged to have me born a haddock instead of Flavia de Luce - wouldn't He?
Alan Bradley
#41. The voice sank through luce's skin and straight into her heart. Daniel's voice. He was calling to her. He wanted her. Needed her. Luce moved towards the sound
Lauren Kate
#42. A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
Clare Boothe Luce
#43. Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
Clare Boothe Luce
#44. 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.
Clare Boothe Luce
#45. If Luce had to rank the worst moments of his existence, Abaddon's betrayal would be up there with the day he was cast into the pit by his own brother.
Neither came close to the sting of losing Serah, though.
J.M. Darhower
#46. Molly slapped the lid back down then pushed past Luce into the foyer stumbling over Shelby in her path.
"Excuse you " they said gruffly at the same time eyeing each other suspiciously.
"Oh good. " Gabbe leaned in to give Luce a hug. "Molly's made a friend."
Lauren Kate
#47. Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Clare Boothe Luce
#48. And Jack, who felt like he was on the cusp of being able to read minds and thought it would be all right if Luce wrote him down for that. ("I sense that you're okay with that, am I right?" He made a gun out of his fingers and clicked his tongue.)
Lauren Kate
#49. Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
Clare Boothe Luce
#50. Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
Henry R. Luce
#51. Luce didn't know how to pull away from Cam.
Lauren Kate
#52. Notorious Lucifer, King of Hell, claimed to know love again.
J.M. Darhower
#53. There are no hopeless situations;there are only people who have grown hopeless about then.
Clare Boothe Luce
#54. In the hovering between sleep and wakefulness, lucid but dreaming, Luce's mind got away from her, and all kinds of empty shit she had meant to put entirely behind her forever swam up and lived in her head again.
Charles Frazier
#55. I'm crazy about you. How can you not see that? How can anybody that sees me with you not see that? Yes, there have been other girls. And yes, they didn't mean anything to me. But you do, Luce. You mean the world to me.
Jay McLean
#56. Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking I could really use a new slave.
Lauren Kate
#57. He shone so bright, the sun could have borrowed light from him.
Lauren Kate
#58. If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
Clare Boothe Luce
#59. [On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
Clare Boothe Luce
#60. The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.
Alice Morse Earle
#61. I swear, kids don't grow a little every day. They save it up. One morning you wake up to a brand-new, much older kid.
Kelly Luce
#62. I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
Alan Bradley
#63. Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.
David Halberstam
#64. You don't really know either of us," Cam said, standing and stepping away, "but you're prepared to choose right now, huh?
Lauren Kate
#65. Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable.
Luce Irigaray
#66. The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because 'these are the good old days' now.
Clare Boothe Luce
#67. You're an angel", Luce said, "I'm in love with an angel".
Lauren Kate
#68. I love to you" is more unusual than "I love you," but respects the two more: I love to who you are, to what you do, without reducing you to an object of my love.
Luce Irigaray
#69. Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
Clare Boothe Luce
#70. 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.
Clare Boothe Luce
#71. Then the angels, the demon, and the Nephilim flew to distant corners of the sky, leaving a moment's brilliant flash of light behind them, as below, Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first-and the last- time
Lauren Kate
#72. Now I find the stack of chapters I called Under Magnolia. Why, after many years, even open these flowered folders? Dare alla luce, the Tuscans say at the birth of a baby, to give to the light.
Frances Mayes
#73. It's amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one's spirits.
Alan Bradley
#74. Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
Clare Boothe Luce
#75. Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.
Luce Irigaray
#76. Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.
Clare Boothe Luce
#77. I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.
Henry R. Luce
#78. Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.
Clare Boothe Luce
#79. I can resist you or flee from you or try my hardest not to respond to you, but it makes no difference. You fall in love with me, and I with you. Daniel to Luce Page 352
Lauren Kate
#81. Luce," Jude said, stopping me, "I get what a piece of shit I am, and it's not awful or unfair or incorrect for people to call me out on what I am. But I'd like to think a person can change, and I swear to you I'm going to try to leave me piece of shitedness behind.
Nicole Williams
#82. Luce: "But what about all those other times, when I die before we kiss, before
"
Bill: "Before you even have a chance to see how toxic your relationship might become?
Lauren Kate
#83. I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
Clare Boothe Luce
#85. Because I know I will never love anyone like I love you. That's what will overcome the past every time it tries to rear its ugly head." He stepped closer. "So it's either you and me or me and me, Luce. And I don't really like myself, so I hope you'll pick the you and me option.
Nicole Williams
#86. And while Luce dreamed below of the most glorious wings unfurling-the likes of which she'd never seen before-two angels in the rafters shook hands.
Lauren Kate
#87. By way of conclusion, Luce said, I lived through it [the rape], so if you can't stand to hear it, you can take me home and go to hell. Men get so damn strange sometimes.
Charles Frazier
#89. History does not end. It is a timeless repetition of human folly and correction. It follows that there is no single model of how to organise society. Who, barring those of religious faith, can say that view is wrong?
Edward Luce
#90. He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him.
- Lucinda Price, Rapture
Lauren Kate
#91. I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
Clare Boothe Luce
#92. Oooh!" Bill squealed. "Very rococo."
"So, I'm really doing this? I'm just going to go down there and pretend
" (Luce)
"No pretending." Bill shook his head. "Own it. Own that cleavage, girl, you know you want to.
Lauren Kate
#93. Luce. We fight. I'm used to that. Sure, that fight was the scariest ass one we've ever had, but you're here now. That's all that matters. No matter how many fights we have, or how much they tip the Richter scale, none of it matters as long as at the end of the day, you're still with me.
Nicole Williams
#95. A man has only one escape from his old self - to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Clare Boothe Luce
#96. Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.
Henry R. Luce
#97. Luce: You could have kept your promises.
Daniel: I promised I'd stay.
Lauren Kate
#98. Nature does abhor a vacuum, but she equally abhors pressure.
Alan Bradley
#99. Luce: But I thought you said I should stay away from the hard cases.
Arriane: Rule number two - don't listen to me!
Lauren Kate
#100. For her, then," Michael said.
Luce sighed. "For her.
J.M. Darhower
