Matthew Arnold Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Perfect, Speech

• But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Wish, Poor

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems”, p.180

• The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things" - as Swift most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Character, Light

  "Culture and Anarchy". Book by Matthew Arnold, 1869.

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