Matthew Arnold – 8 Quotes

8 Quotes by Matthew Arnold

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

– Matthew Arnold

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

– Matthew Arnold

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

– Matthew Arnold

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

– Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

– Matthew Arnold

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

– Matthew Arnold

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

– Matthew Arnold

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

– Matthew Arnold