Quotes By Mignon McLaughlin

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.