Philistine Quotes

For thirty years people have been asking me how I reconcile X with Y! The truthful answer is that I don`t. 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 is 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.

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.

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