Love Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin · Page 2

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

— Mignon McLaughlin

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

— Mignon McLaughlin

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would…

— Mignon McLaughlin

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.

— Mignon McLaughlin

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and…

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk…

— Mignon McLaughlin

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

— 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

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life. And perhaps we are…

— Mignon McLaughlin

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

— Mignon McLaughlin