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.

November 27, 2025

11 months ago

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

June 19, 2025

1 year ago

A liar needs a good memory.

March 13, 2025

2 years ago

Those who exercise power and determine policy are generally men whose minds have been formed by events twenty or thirty years before.

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