All Matthew Arnold Quotes
- Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing. English
- Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity. Age
- Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various,… Ah
- Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. Born
- But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our… Beats
- Art still has truth. Take refuge there. Art
- And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will. Brings
- Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me… Asking
- If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be… Benefit
- Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless… Close Relationship
- The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is… Bay
- ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee. Conquered
- Six years-six little years-six drops of time. Drops
- Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. Acquainting
- All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men. All
- The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head. Brave
- Saw life steadily and saw it whole. Inspirational
- 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,… Admiration
- It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to… Enjoyed
- If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of… Able