"Philistinism! - We have not the expression in……" — Matthew Arnold

"Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing."

— Matthew Arnold

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144 Quotes by Matthew Arnold

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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and…
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in…

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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time… — Christian Bale
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and… — Javier Bardem
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

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