Quotes by Israel Zangwill

The following are quotes from Israel Zangwill:

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

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

The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition.

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...

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