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.
Source: Quoted on Who Said That?, BBC TV, 11 Feb 1958.
-- Israel Zangwill, (Feb 14 1864-1926), English novelist, playwright, religioius leader; He was a Zionist and one of the earliest English interpreters of Jewish immigrant life.