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.

November 8, 2025

9 months ago

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

April 6, 2025

1 year ago

In the end we are all sacked and it’s always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life.

December 26, 2025

7 months ago

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

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