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Author: Mignon McLaughlin
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Characteristics
Generosity
Reputation
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Age
Characteristics
Young
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Men
People
Sex
Women
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
People
Places
Cigarettes
Fire
Mars
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6º of marriage!
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Marriage
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Characteristics
Vanity
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Characteristics
Friends
Honesty
People
Friendship
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else; the same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Autos
New York City
Places
Things
Manners
A woman’s mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Marriage
Mink coat
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
People
Conformists
Society
Troublemakers
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Communication
People
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes it's partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Emotions
Intelligence
Head
Heart
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
People
Relationships
Conformists
Troublemakers
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Age
People
Women
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Lost
Value
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Communication
Emotions
Happiness
Intelligence
Stupidity
Innocence
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Marriage
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Divorce
Marriage
Reasons
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Characteristics
Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
People
Women
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913 – 1983) journalist & author
Characteristics
Humility
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