Worst Won Quotes by Helen Clark MacInnes

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

— Helen Clark MacInnes

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

— Helen Clark MacInnes

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

— Helen Clark MacInnes

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

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

— Helen Clark MacInnes

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

— Helen Clark MacInnes

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…

— Helen Clark MacInnes

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

— Helen Clark MacInnes

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

— Helen Clark MacInnes

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

— Helen Clark MacInnes

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

— Helen Clark MacInnes

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

— Helen Clark MacInnes