Prejudice, n. Avagrant opinion without visible means of support.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

Race prejudice isnot onlya shadowover the coloredöit is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

-Buck, Pearl ne¤  e Sydenstricker
  What  America Means To Me, ch.1.

   Mr Squeers's appearance was not prepossessing. He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^9  Nicholas Nickleby, ch.4.

I have but one request to make at my departure from this world, it isöthe charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives, dare now vindicate them, let no prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justicetomycharacter.Whenmycountry takesher place among thenations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

-Emmet, Robert
  Speech before being sentenced.

I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer. To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minuteöand I do. But although I try to make myself as pleasant as I can, Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Gama's song, Princess Ida, act1.

Fortunately forpoetsandthosewho liketowalk about in the open air, the beauty of landscape is not something that can be reduced easily to basic geology or a few ready-wrapped phrases about what places are used for. Preference and prejudice creep in.

-Hillaby,John
  Journey through Britain.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

-Nathan, GeorgeJean
Attributed.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Remark to Allen Ginsberg,7 Jun. Quoted in H Carpenter A Serious Character (1988), pt.5.

Information, freefrominterestorprejudice, freefromthe vanity of the writer or the influence of a Government, is as necessary to the human mind as pure air and water to the human body.

-Rees-Mogg,William Rees-Mogg, Baron
  Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep.

Though one eye may be very agreeable, yet as the prejudice has always run in favour of two, I would not wish to affect a singularity in that article.

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  Jack Absolute.The Rivals, act 3, sc.1.

Travel is fatal to prejudice.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  The Innocents Abroad, conclusion.