Matthew Arnold Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Character, Perfection, Personality

  Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869)

• 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.

• The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

  Matthew Arnold

  Latin, Character, Greek

  Schools and Universities on the Continent (1868)

• Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.

  Matthew Arnold

  Character, Poetry, Inspire

  Matthew Arnold, Gillian Sutherland (1973). “Matthew Arnold on education”, Penguin Books

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