Israel Zangwill

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

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.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

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

Everything changes but change.

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

The cold cut like a many bladed knife.

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.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

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.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

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.

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

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

New York is the great stone desert.

It takes two men to make one brother.