361 Quotes by Matthew Arnold

  • Author Matthew Arnold
  • Quote

    If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Matthew Arnold
  • Quote

    And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!.

  • Tags
  • Share


  • Author Matthew Arnold
  • Quote

    One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

  • Share

  • Author Matthew Arnold
  • Quote

    Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Matthew Arnold
  • Quote

    Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Matthew Arnold
  • Quote

    And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening...

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Matthew Arnold
  • Quote

    Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

  • Share

  • Author Matthew Arnold
  • Quote

    For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers.

  • Tags
  • Share