Israel Zangwill Quotes

It takes two men to make one brother.

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.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

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

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

New York is the great stone desert.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

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

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.

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

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

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

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

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

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

Everything changes but change

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!

Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.

The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own.

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

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

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

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.

Everything changes but change.

In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.