Author: Goldwin Smith

Quotes

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

- Goldwin Smith

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

- Goldwin Smith

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

- Goldwin Smith

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

- Goldwin Smith

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

- Goldwin Smith

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

- Goldwin Smith

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

- Goldwin Smith

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

- Goldwin Smith

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

- Goldwin Smith

Similar Authors: