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.

January 6, 2025

2 years ago

As democracy is perfected, the office of president [of the United States of America] represents

November 12, 2025

12 months ago

Humming, Hawing and Hesitation are the three Graces of contemporary Parliamentary oratory.

October 4, 2025

1 year ago

Most men make little other use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

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