Mignon McLaughlin: Trending quotes (page 13)

“In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

Waiting

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Motivation

“Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

God , Thinking

“A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

“When we have been humiliated by someone we love, it takes all our strength to pretend to recover from it.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Love

“Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity and always its result.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Books , Reading

“The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

Way

“I am as I am" is another way of saying "I can do without your love.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Love , Way

“Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men

“Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Life

“Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Hate , Drawing

“Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

God

“Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Women , Men , Children , Food

“Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Theater

Life , Sense

“Between a man and a woman both aged fifty there are two full generations, for she might well wed a man in his seventies, and he a girl of twenty.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men

Age , Girl , Wedding

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny?"”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Freedom