Character Quotes by Helen McCloy

what you fear, you invite.

— Helen McCloy

the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.

— Helen McCloy

... law is a substitute for love.

— Helen McCloy

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.

— Helen McCloy

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

— Helen McCloy

Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

— Helen McCloy

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

— Helen McCloy

most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone…

— Helen McCloy

Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of…

— Helen McCloy

money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.

— Helen McCloy

Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

— Helen McCloy

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

— Helen McCloy