It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

—Mignon McLaughlin

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

—Mignon McLaughlin

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

—Mignon McLaughlin

There it was. That fierce loyalty. He didn't have a clue how that was the most attractive thing about him.

—Mariana Zapata in Under Locke

There was something special about family by choice. It wasn't blood that held us all together. It was loyalty. Love.

—Cambria Hebert in #Junkie

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

—Henrik Ibsen

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

—George Bernard Shaw