Author: Goldwin Smith

Quotes

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

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

- Goldwin Smith

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

- 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

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

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

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

- 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

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

- Goldwin Smith

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