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.

October 31, 2025

4 months ago

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

January 25, 2025

1 year ago

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

August 22, 2025

6 months ago

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

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