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 21, 2025

7 months ago

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

February 6, 2025

1 year ago

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

May 30, 2025

9 months ago

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years

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