255 Quotes by Howard Jacobson

To assert that antisemitism is unlike other racisms is not to claim a privilege for it. Hating a Jew is no worse than hating anyone else.

Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.

To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it.

It's not only teenagers who think they look good in pre-holed jeans, and I doubt it's only the superannuated who are amused by Ant and Dec.

Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.

If the Jew transmogrified into the Devil for the medieval church, he retained his devilish characteristics as Christian sentiment found other places to express itself, early socialism being one of them.

There's no law that says you have to be consistent in your preferences.

It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked existentialist credentials himself - indeed, as an earlier discontented Dane, he could be said to have laid the ground for Kierkegaard - but because the line 'to thine own self be true' was spoken by that humourless old ninny, Polonius.

Literature is a house with many mansions.