Israel Zangwill Quotes

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

"Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Religion, Atheism, Selfishness)

"A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Wife, Cleverness, Man)

"The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Love, First, Sight)

"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
(Related: Love, Opera, Passion, Play)

"Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Christian)

"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
(Related: American, Will)

"No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Christian, Fool, Man)

"New York is the great stone desert."
- Israel Zangwill

"It takes two men to make one brother."
- Israel Zangwill
(Related: Men, Brother)

"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
(Related: Inspiration, Danger, Glamour, Imitation, Past, Prison, Repetition)