Quotes About Philistines

#1. England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Hanif Kureishi

#2. For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.

David Harsanyi

#3. What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

Georg Brandes

#5. A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

Vladimir Lenin

#6. He mashed hundreds of cakes of GI soap into the sweet potatoes just to show that people have the taste of Philistines and don't know the difference between good and bad.

Joseph Heller

#7. Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.

Thomas Harris

#8. Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Matthew Arnold

#9. Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!
What has your politics fed on
since you've been ruling the world?
On butchery and murder!

Charles De Coster

#11. After Ehud, Shamgar son of Anath became judge. He delivered Israel by striking down 600 Philistines with an oxgoad.

Anonymous

#12. AGONISTES (AGONI'STES) n.s.[ Gr.]A prize-fighter; one that contends at any public solemnity for a prize. Milton has so stiled his tragedy, because Sampson was called out to divert the Philistines with feats of strength.

Samuel Johnson

#13. Saul took their fear of the Philistines personally. Rejection always takes things personally, becoming defensive, and thus never allows us to see or hear things properly. Remember, the most commons signs of rejection are being defensive and taking things personally.

Anthony Hulsebus

#14. Life is seen as an ongoing war between art and philistinism - and although the philistines may win some of the battles, it is literature that always wins the war.

Helon Habila

#15. In a good-natured way he had almost decided that Princeton was one part deadly Philistines and one part deadly grinds, and to find a person who could mention Keats without stammering, yet evidently washed his hands, was rather a treat.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. There are very few people in the world with courage enough to admit that they do not care for music (dogs and children come into the same category) and so brand themselves forever as Philistines in the eyes of their friends.

D.E. Stevenson

#17. He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

Louis Kronenberger

#18. Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?

Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#19. A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#20. With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.

Leon Trotsky

#21. You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction
the wisecrack.

W. Somerset Maugham

#22. Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

Morrie Schwartz.

#23. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

Pete Seeger

#24. It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.

Paul Murray

#25. We race toward the future at the velocity of the present.

D.A. Blankinship

#26. Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.

Will Rogers

#27. If you treat animals how you want to be treated, you're a lot better off.

Bindi Irwin

#28. Girls are nothing to be afraid of, no matter the kind. Boys, on the other hand.

Katie Heaney

#29. I no longer feel banished from myself.

Harold Pinter

#30. I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

Parker Stevenson