While Still We Live Quotes

“Hardship and danger destroys fewer people than indulgence.”
― Helen MacInnes, While Still We Live

“Britain and our friends, by allowing Colonel Bolt’s records to have a grave question mark against your name, would you let that question mark still remain?” Sheila looked puzzled. She was”
― Helen MacInnes, While Still We Live

“Matthews. For Mr.”
― Helen MacInnes, While Still We Live

“He had been there to warn Dutka’s wife and boy. It was an idea of his own, but it worked. They got away.” “The captain? Thaddeus?” “The Germans were still searching when I left. The searchlights had been brought up.” “There’s a chance, isn’t there, Jan?” “There’s always a chance.” But his voice was heavy, and his shoulders drooped. Sheila’s next question about Korytów”
― Helen MacInnes, While Still We Live

“head. “You will not tell?” She shook her head again. “But how else can we believe you? You mean you are willing to be shot as a spy rather than give his name?” “Would his name”
― Helen MacInnes, While Still We Live

“I’ve used”
― Helen MacInnes, While Still We Live

“grace that her training had made natural for her. Did she ever think of ballet, now? Madame Aleksander wondered.”
― Helen MacInnes, While Still We Live

“remember the name of the firm which he owned. She”
― Helen MacInnes, While Still We Live

“People like me who have never suffered—I mean in the way the people of Korytów and all the other millions of Poles are suffering—can afford to be broad-minded. You and the people who have really suffered must think people like me are not only smug, but callous.” “Only if you tell us that it is wrong to hate,”
― Helen MacInnes, While Still We Live

“am in revolt against the recent fashion of attaching so much weight to political ideology. For the last fifty years, we have paid too much attention to political differences, just as we used to pay too much attention to religious differences.”
― Helen MacInnes, While Still We Live