"Those who are brutally honest are seldom so…" — Mignon McLaughlin

"Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves."

— Mignon McLaughlin

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311 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Mignon McLaughlin has 311 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it,…
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

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I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally. — Rick Baker
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed… — Emile Durkheim
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. — Richard J. Needham
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. — Richard J. Needham
Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I… — Don DeLillo
Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest. — Lori Palatnik
ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER. — Nellie Bly
Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally — Maurice Strong
Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?" Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness. — Matt Groening
Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my… — Rosie O'Donnell
I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or… — A. O. Scott
I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other. — Donal Logue

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