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.

September 27, 2025

10 months ago

When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists

December 15, 2025

8 months ago

If you want to know the depth and meanness of Human Nature, you have got to be a prime minister running a general election.

July 10, 2025

1 year ago

The magistrate ought definitely to bear in mind that he represents the state.

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