Philistine Quotes
- It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't… — Germaine Greer
- Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's… — Orson Welles
- It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a… — Robert Winston
- That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a… — Nick Hornby
- It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has… — Karl Marx
- Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity. — Vladimir Nabokov