Quotes by Arnold, Matthew

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists >>

Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left ou >>

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Popula >>

Quotations about Class

I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? >>

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth >>

Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in t >>

If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.

Arnold, Matthew