Author: Matthew Arnold

Quotes

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

- Matthew Arnold

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

- Matthew Arnold

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

- Matthew Arnold

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

- Matthew Arnold

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

- Matthew Arnold

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

- Matthew Arnold

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

- Matthew Arnold

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

- Matthew Arnold

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

- Matthew Arnold

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