Israel Zangwill Quotes

English - Novelist | January 21, 1864 - August 1, 1926

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

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Everything changes but change.

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The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

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America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

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New York is the great stone desert.

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No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

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Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

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No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

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In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

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It takes two men to make one brother.

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