Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Self-Discovery
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Life
If you’re a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
—Mignon McLaughlin
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Women
Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Women
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Procrastination
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Parents
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn’t even know they carried.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Eating
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn’t either.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Boldness
If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Goals
There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Men
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Happiness
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else’s.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Kindness
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Men
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
Topics: Confidence
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Pride
There’s an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Family
Men who don’t like girls with brains don’t like girls.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Women
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Action
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what’s missing.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Love
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Life
Be glad that you’re greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren’t.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Greed
Every society honors its live conformists
and its dead troublemakers.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Risk-taking, Conformity, Right, Society
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Reading
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: One liners
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Courage
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Night
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Vice
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Realistic Expectations, Love
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Topics: Love
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