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.

September 28, 2025

10 months ago

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

May 23, 2025

1 year ago

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

July 27, 2025

1 year ago

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

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