Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

About Mignon McLaughlin:

Mignon McLaughlin is known for a number of quotes, among them:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

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

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

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 ...

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

Mignon McLaughlin

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Mignon McLaughlin

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Mignon McLaughlin

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

Mignon McLaughlin

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

Mignon McLaughlin

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Mignon McLaughlin

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

Mignon McLaughlin

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

Mignon McLaughlin

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Mignon McLaughlin

Author Bio

  • NameMignon McLaughlin
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornJune 6, 1913
  • DiedDecember 20, 1983
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist