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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes | Quotes said by Mignon McLaughlin

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #1

    A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.


  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #2

    A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #3

    A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #4

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

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #5

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

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #6

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

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #7

    An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #8

    Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #9

    Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #10

    Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #11

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

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #12

    Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #13

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

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #14

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

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #15

    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.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #16

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

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #17

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

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #18

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

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #19

    It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #20

    Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #21

    Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #22

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

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #23

    Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #24

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

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #25

    Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #26

    Only where children gather
    is there any real chance of fun.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #27

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

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #28

    Para un buen matrimonio hay que enamorarse muchas veces, siempre de la misma persona.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #29

    Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  • Mignon McLaughlin Quote #30

    The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

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