Matthew Arnold Quotes

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Matthew Arnold

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Matthew Arnold

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Matthew Arnold

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Matthew Arnold

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matthew Arnold

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Matthew Arnold