A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband… — Margery Fish Copy Share Image
Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit.… — Felicity Huffman Copy Share Image
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
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