Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Helen Clark MacInnes

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Helen Clark MacInnes.

Last updated on November 13, 2024.

Helen Clark MacInnes was a Scottish-American writer of espionage novels.

American - Author | October 7, 1907 - September 20, 1985

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

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

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

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

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.

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.

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

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

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

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

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

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

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