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 8, 2025

2 years ago

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.

June 29, 2025

1 year ago

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

August 30, 2026

2 months ago

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

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