Quotes by Israel Zangwill

• Everything changes but 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; unselfishness the only real religion.
• A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
• The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
• 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.
• 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.
• New York is the great stone desert.
• It takes two men to make one brother.
• 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.