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 6, 2025

2 years ago

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

March 9, 2025

2 years ago

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free

February 4, 2025

2 years ago

The Falklands thing [the ten-week undeclared war in 1981 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over a few

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