Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.

Between a man and a woman both aged fifty there are two full generations, for she might well wed a man in his seventies, and he a girl of twenty.

If he suddenly falls in love with someone else, a husband may not start wanting a divorce; but if he suddenly makes a lot of money, he usually will.

Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.

Neurotic: Someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

Any woman can talk herself into being in love with any man, for a while anyway.

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

It is always safe to tell people that they’re looking wonderful.

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.