11 Quotes by Helen Clark MacInnes

Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested.

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

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.

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.

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

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

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.