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.

May 24, 2025

1 year ago

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night

March 8, 2025

2 years ago

A government needs one hundred soldiers for every guerrilla it faces.

December 8, 2025

11 months ago

Political skill [is] the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, next year.

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