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.

May 24, 2025

9 months ago

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night

January 4, 2025

1 year ago

…in politics you’ve got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

November 17, 2025

3 months ago

The difference between a Democracy and a Dictatorship is that in a Democracy you vote first and take orders later

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