Quotes Library

September 6, 2025

Prejudice is the raft unto which the ship-wrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Ben Hecht (1894–1964), American journalist, writer, A Guide for the Bedevilled (1947), Seldes p.177

What do you suppose caused the shipwreck? And to what sort of safety?

No doubt Jane Austen would agree that pride can be made to serve the same purpose.

October 2, 2025

5 months ago

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

September 5, 2025

6 months ago

[On freedom of the press] The intrusion of government into this domain is symptomatic of the disease of this society.

December 6, 2025

3 months ago

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

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