Helen Clark MacInnes Quotes

#1. The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#2. And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#3. Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#4. The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#5. Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#6. Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#7. Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#8. Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#9. Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

Helen Clark MacInnes

#10. One doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#11. Civilization is a perishable commodity.

Helen Clark MacInnes