Mignon McLaughlin Quotations | Page 2

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.