Israel Zangwill Quotes
1864–1926 England
Israel Zangwill (February 14, 1864 – August 1, 1926) was an English humorist and writer.
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- Playwrights
Also known as: Zangwill, Israel
Random Israel Zangwill quote
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No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Children of the Ghetto (1892)
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled.
Children of the Ghetto (1892)
It is only little men and creatures low in the scale of organization who never change.
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Oh, for the simple life,
For tents and starry skies!
The past is our cradle, not our prison, and there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
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.
The Moment of Death; or, The Never, Never Land
Title of play (1900)
What a dark world—who knows?—
Ours to inhabit is!
One touch and what a strange
Glory might burst on us,
What a hid universe!
An Edward's England spat us out - a band
Foredoomed to redden Vistula or Rhine,
And leaf-like toss with every wind malign.
All mocked the faith they could not understand.