Flowers Quote by Matthew Arnold

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

— Matthew Arnold

We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind…

— Matthew Arnold

“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.”

— Matthew Arnold

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed…

— Matthew Arnold

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human…

— Matthew Arnold

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

— Matthew Arnold

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

— Matthew Arnold

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

— Matthew Arnold

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

— Matthew Arnold

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

— Matthew Arnold

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

— Matthew Arnold

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

— Matthew Arnold