Philistine Quote by Jesse Armstrong

A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing.…

— Virginia Postrel

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

— Louis Dudek

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at…

— Anthony Hopkins

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas…

— Vladimir Nabokov

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently…

— Ambrose Bierce

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of…

— Matthew Arnold

Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as…

— Leslie Stephen

The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would…

— Issa Rae

When you put wrestlers on TV, they're the highest professionals in the business.

— Bobby Lashley

My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I…

— James Wolk

My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few…

— Sullivan Stapleton