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 5, 2025

8 months ago

There is but one way for a newspaperman to look at a politician, and that is down.

February 26, 2025

12 months ago

[On Winston Churchill] Restless, almost intolerably so, without capacity for sustained and unexcited labour, egotistical,

April 23, 2025

10 months ago

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

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