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.

January 30, 2025

2 years ago

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

December 1, 2025

11 months ago

The voice of the people has something divine; else how could so many agree to one thing?

July 15, 2025

1 year ago

[To one of her hotel housekeepers] Only the little people pay taxes.

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