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.

May 2, 2025

10 months ago

Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal

July 27, 2025

7 months ago

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

July 23, 2025

7 months ago

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

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