Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

Love is never going to go out of style, a man is always going to want to have the love of a woman. She just needs a game plan to work out how to get his love.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

When a man thinks about a woman he thinks about love, he never thinks about marriage. When a woman thinks about a man, she thinks about marriage. Love is secondary, security is first. She lives in a different kind of world - maybe in the future she may not, but in the past the only problem for the woman was how to be secure.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

Men hate more steadily than they love.

The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

But one thing you have to understand clearly is that it is the man who longs for domination, and it is the woman who dominates. This is what I call coexistence: live and let live. More than that is all imagination. If you really had known what love is...the basic thing is not to create a relationship. Stand aloof as the pillars of a temple stand aloof, but support the same roof. Don't destroy the individuality of the other, enhance it if you can; otherwise, at least leave it as it is, uninterfered with.

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking, I think they have an interesting, wonderful connection, so you knowWhat does dating mean? I don't know. I couldn't say. People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will follow.

Tell me love isn't true, it's just something that we do.

It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

Guys think of love as a feeling, which means that if you do something wrong you can still love somebody. So guys are constantly screwing up and then saying, "But I love you!" And girls have a different standard for love.

Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.