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.

March 24, 2025

2 years ago

[Of Winston Churchill] He is a terrible burden for any Govt. to carry—someone said of [his father] Randolph Churchill

February 20, 2025

2 years ago

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometime you have to be evasive.

September 12, 2025

1 year ago

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

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