Joseph Epstein Quotes & Sayings
23 most famous Joseph Epstein quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.”
“Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.”
“My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.”
“The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.”
“Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.”
“I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.”
“I know how deeply slothful I am.”
“Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.”
“I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.”
“In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.”
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