Israel Zangwill Quotations

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

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.

Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into the heart of every milieu, and must there defend a frontier line as large as the world.

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

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

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

New York is the great stone desert.

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

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.