Israel Zangwill Quotes

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
Israel Zangwill

Love, True, Second

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
Israel Zangwill

Christian, Find, Spoiled

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
Israel Zangwill

Religion, Real, Atheism

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Israel Zangwill

Stupid, Wife, Enough

Everything changes but change.
Israel Zangwill

Change, Changes

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
Israel Zangwill

Real, Tell, American

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Israel Zangwill

Past, Danger, Imitation

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Israel Zangwill

Great, God, America

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
Israel Zangwill

Love, Passion, Play

It takes two men to make one brother.
Israel Zangwill

Men, Two, Brother

New York is the great stone desert.
Israel Zangwill

Great, York, Stone

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Israel Zangwill

Fool, Christian, Enough

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: February 14, 1864

Died: August 1, 1926

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