Oh, for the simple life,/For tents and starry skies!
—Israel Zangwill
Topics: Solitude
Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.
—Israel Zangwill
Topics: Ideals
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there s danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
—Israel Zangwill
Topics: Inspiration, Past, Reflection
Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
—Israel Zangwill
Topics: Selfishness, Aspirations, Religion, Atheism
How full and rich a world
Theirs to inhabit is—
Sweet scent of grass and bloom,
Playmates’ glad symphony,
Cool touch of western wind,
Sunshine’s divine caress.
How should they know or feel
They are in darkness?
But, oh, the miracle!
If a Redeemer came,
Laid finger on their eyes—
One touch and what a world,
New-born in loveliness!
—Israel Zangwill
Topics: Children
Everything changes but change.
—Israel Zangwill
Topics: Change
It takes two men to make a brother.
—Israel Zangwill
Topics: Brothers, Relationships
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
Topics: America
The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many believe in no God at all.
—Israel Zangwill
Topics: Writing
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan—spoiled.
—Israel Zangwill
Topics: Christians, Christianity
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
—Israel Zangwill
Topics: Cleverness, Admiration, Intelligence
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
—Israel Zangwill
Topics: Self-respect, Self Respect
America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
—Israel Zangwill
Topics: America
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