All Matthew Arnold Quotes
- Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. Concern
- I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today. Believe
- Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. America
- At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men… Anybody
- Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life. Application
- Not deep the poet sees, but wide. Deep
- Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the… Children
- Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Appear
- Genius is mainly an affair of energy. Affair
- We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides: But… Abides
- He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth. Birth
- In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with… All
- Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he! Ah
- For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule. Corrupt
- Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! Belief
- Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And… Ah
- When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his… Bow
- To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. Applaud
- Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may… Affair
- A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time. Birth