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 4, 2025

1 year ago

…in politics you’ve got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

August 14, 2025

6 months ago

[Notice kept on his desk while working on his biography of Lord Mountbatten] Remember.

October 3, 2025

5 months ago

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

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