People Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone — until they do.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

— Mignon McLaughlin

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're…

— Mignon McLaughlin

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

— Mignon McLaughlin

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're…

— Mignon McLaughlin

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

— 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

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that…

— Mignon McLaughlin

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Forget about calories — everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

— 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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin