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.

June 18, 2025

1 year ago

It is no inglorious thing to have fear for the safety of our country, but to be turned from one’s course by men’s opinion

February 6, 2025

2 years ago

One should as a rule respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison,

July 2, 2025

1 year ago

Fame is a vapor; popularity is an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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