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.

February 8, 2025

1 year ago

The main advantage of being famous is that when you bore people at dinner they think it is their fault.

May 14, 2025

1 year ago

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

October 3, 2025

10 months ago

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

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