Author: Matthew Arnold

Quotes

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

- 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

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

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

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

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

- Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

- Matthew Arnold

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

- Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

- Matthew Arnold

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