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.

March 20, 2025

2 years ago

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

November 19, 2025

11 months ago

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

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

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