All Matthew Arnold Quotes
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Anorexia
- Journalism is literature in a hurry. Communication
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. Beautiful
- And we forget because we must and not because we will. Forget
- Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. Bald
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a… Air
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Age
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. Bent
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Death
- Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the… Blow
- Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. Brutalizes
- Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the… Becoming
- Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one Both
- Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world Been
- Men of culture are the true apostles of equality Apostles
- The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something… Apparently
- All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. All
- Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class. Brutalizing
- Greatness is a spiritual condition. Condition
- Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun... Aging
- Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. Becoming
- The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. Emotion
- The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear. Bear
- Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so… Ah
- They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate. Await