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 23, 2025

9 months ago

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

April 16, 2025

10 months ago

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

January 13, 2025

1 year ago

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness.

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