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.

June 18, 2025

8 months ago

It is no inglorious thing to have fear for the safety of our country, but to be turned from one’s course by men’s opinion

November 23, 2025

3 months ago

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

July 16, 2025

7 months ago

The model of a modern Prime Minister would be a kind of grotesque composite freak

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