Mignon McLaughlin > Quotes

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“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, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook

“True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, Lucky In Love Greeting Card

“Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“Only where children gather
is there any real chance of fun.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.”
― Mignon McLaughlin