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.

April 25, 2025

2 years ago

Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.

October 17, 2025

1 year ago

[When asked what he had done during the French Revolution] I survived.

March 24, 2025

2 years ago

[Of Winston Churchill] He is a terrible burden for any Govt. to carry—someone said of [his father] Randolph Churchill

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