Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan – spoiled.
About Israel Zangwill
Israel Zangwillwas a British author at the forefront of Zionism during the 19th century, and was a close associate of Theodor Herzl. He later rejected the search for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and became the prime thinker behind the territorial movement.
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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.
British author (1864-1926)
Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
British author (1864-1926)
Everything changes but change.
British author (1864-1926)
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.
British author (1864-1926)
No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
British author (1864-1926)
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan – spoiled.
British author (1864-1926)
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.
British author (1864-1926)
America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
British author (1864-1926)
New York is the great stone desert.
British author (1864-1926)
The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
British author (1864-1926)
It takes two men to make one brother.
British author (1864-1926)
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
British author (1864-1926)