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.

February 28, 2025

1 year ago

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but a mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature,

October 18, 2025

9 months ago

Take our politicians: they’re a bunch of yo-yos.

January 12, 2025

2 years ago

It is a great error to speak of the things of this world absolutely and indiscriminately and to deal with them,

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