All Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
- Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. Atheist
- No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves. Already Half
- There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. All
- We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. Ago
- Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. All
- Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. Beautiful
- True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. Consequence
- Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer. Inspirational
- Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. Brain
- If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. Hate
- Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play. Actor
- Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. Anxiety
- The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing. Best
- A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. Book
- Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had Bearable
- Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. Appearance
- There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting… Child
- The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. Give
- Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. Arms
- Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun. Any