Quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

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

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

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

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

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

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

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

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

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

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

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

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