Mignon Mclaughlin Quotes

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

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

~ 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

Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

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