Best Philistines Quotes

38 Philistines quotes by 32 unique authors

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with… — Hunter S. Thompson
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
You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much… — W. Somerset Maugham
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 the honey in… — Thomas Harris
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
For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous. — David Harsanyi
And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!… — Bible
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom… — Bible
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing: For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and… — Bible
Can something good emanate from bad things? One of the things that interested me when I was young was to hear my parents riddles time.… — Sammykabyemera

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