Philister / Philistine Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Philister / Philistine:

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. V. S. Naipaul

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

Ambrose Bierce

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

Colin Firth

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Pauline Kael

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

V. S. Naipaul

It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?'

Robert Winston

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

Vladimir Nabokov

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Louis Dudek

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

Orson Welles

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.

Germaine Greer