Israel Zangwill Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

8 Famous Quotes by Israel Zangwill
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“A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it”
Cleverness Quotes
“American is the crucible of God. It is the melting pot where all the races are fusing and reforming . . . these are the fires of God you've come to. . . . Into the crucible with you all. God is making the American.”
Patriotism Quotes
Source: The Melting Pot
“Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.”
Self-examination Quotes
Source: Children of the Ghetto (bk. II, ch. 16)
“You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.”
Self-examination Quotes
Source: Children of the Ghetto (bk. II, ch. 16)
“A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.”
Cleverness Quotes
“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.”
Forgiveness Quotes
“You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries... - Melting Pot, The.”
Literature Quotes
“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.”
Love Quotes
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