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

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

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.

- 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

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

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 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

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