Israel Zangwill (21 January 1864 – 1 August 1926) was a British humorist and writer. Read full biography of Israel Zangwill →
The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
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... →
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Everything changes but change.
It takes two men to make one brother.
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.
No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
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.
New York is the great stone desert.
Israel Zangwill (21 January 1864 – 1 August 1926) was a British humorist and writer.