All Israel Zangwill Quotes
- It takes two men to make one brother. Brother
- A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. Admire
- There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like… Cheaper
- No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man. Christian
- Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal. Day
- You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder. Correct
- 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… Average
- Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad. Change
- There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly. Able
- Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names. Constantly
- Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more… Art
- [T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul... Book
- 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… Child
- What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors! Clinical
- I hate French poetry. What measured glitter! French
- 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. Analogies
- ...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in… Art
- You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting… All
- New York is the great stone desert. Desert
- No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all… All
- 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. Blown
- The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it. Dispels
- Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled. Christian
- America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! All
- Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. Aspiration