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.

May 23, 2025

9 months ago

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

November 25, 2025

3 months ago

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise.

February 13, 2025

1 year ago

It is a fine thing to face machine guns for immortality and a medal, but isn’t it a fine thing, too, to face calumny,

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