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.

April 23, 2025

1 year ago

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

October 28, 2025

9 months ago

[Definition of] Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

September 9, 2025

11 months ago

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.

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