Quotes by Goldwin Smith

Goldwin Smith

Above all nations is humanity.

Humanity

Nations

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

America

Pretentious

Ugly Things

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Ancient

Excellence

Historical

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Art

Art Is

Expression

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

Deeper

London

Poetic

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

Hype

Mind

Running

Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying ‘there is nothing here.’

Aca

Names

Two

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

Enemy

Eye

Political

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Beauty

Heart

Ignorant

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

Genesis

Strive

Youth

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America

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Beauty

Believe

Black

Canada

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Church

Civilization

Confederation

Corny

Country

Deeper

Differences

Discipline

Doors

Enemy

England

Excellence

Expression

Eye

Father

Genesis

Government

Grace

Heart

Historical

House

Humanity

Hype

Ignorant

India

Jesus

Kingdoms

Kings

Law

London

Might

Mind

Names

Nations

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Ottawa

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Quotes by Goldwin Smith

Goldwin Smith

Above all nations is humanity.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying ‘there is nothing here.’

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

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