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.

July 31, 2025

12 months ago

Conspiracies cannot be hatched without the complicity of others, and for that reason are extremely dangerous.

February 4, 2025

1 year ago

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

November 24, 2025

8 months ago

America is still a government of the naïve, by the naïve, and for the naïve.

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