“I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room”
Source: The Quality of Mercy
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“If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth”
Source: Afterthoughts
“I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced”
“It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes”
“My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings”
“Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of”
“There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling”
“Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.”
“Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.”
Source: The Compensations of Librarianship
“Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.”
“Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”
“A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.”
“The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them.”
“I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.”
“She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.”
Source: The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays
“The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.”
“We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.”
“I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.”