Philistine Quotes
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Philistine Quotes & Sayings
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I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.
— Michael Longley
The personification of philistine triumphalism
— Salman Rushdie
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
— Pauline Kael
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
— Robert F. Kennedy
I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
— P. J. O'Rourke
We must surrender ourselves to God, not our assignments.
— E'yen A. Gardner
Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
— Vladimir Nabokov
She's like a Philistine on a Sunday, the way she won't take but so many steps a day. Except every day's Sunday around here.
— Kathryn Stockett
Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.
— Charles Spurgeon
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
— Louis Dudek
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
— Ambrose Bierce
He was clearly marked with the stamp of the Philistine.
— Agatha Christie
An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.
— Frederick Lenz
When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant "Goliath!" and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
— V.S. Naipaul
The philistine tranquillises himself with the trivial.
— Soren Kierkegaard