Israel Zangwill Quotes

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

Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names. — Israel Zangwill

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal. — Israel Zangwill

Everything changes but change. — Israel Zangwill

It takes two men to make one brother. — Israel Zangwill

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

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

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all. — Israel Zangwill

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music. — Israel Zangwill

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

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad. — Israel Zangwill

Let us start a new religion with one commandment, Enjoy thyself. — Israel Zangwill

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common. — Israel Zangwill

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

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

I hate French poetry. What measured glitter! — Israel Zangwill

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 its father's hand. — Israel Zangwill

New York is the great stone desert. — Israel Zangwill

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul ... — Israel Zangwill

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull. — Israel Zangwill

The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land. — Israel Zangwill

There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly. — Israel Zangwill

In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists. — Israel Zangwill

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. — Israel Zangwill

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors! — Israel Zangwill

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

The cold cut like a many bladed knife — Israel Zangwill

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