Matthew Arnold Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Common Sense

  God and the Bible: A Review of Objections to Literature and Dogma (1875)

• Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . her ineffable charm. . . . Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic!

  Matthew Arnold

  Beautiful, Heart, Garden

• Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.

  Matthew Arnold

  Gay, Years, Age

  Matthew Arnold (1954). “A selection of his poems”

• What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

  Matthew Arnold

  Eye, Age, Wreaths

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.143

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Age, Common, Youth

  'Youth's Agitations' (1852)

• Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here.

  Matthew Arnold

  Race, Iron, Suffering

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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