Civilization is a perishable commodity.

- Helen Clark Macinnes

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

- Helen Clark Macinnes

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

- Helen Clark Macinnes

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

- Helen Clark Macinnes

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

- 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

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

- 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 must.

- 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 is, meaningless.

- Helen Clark Macinnes