Midterm #2 Quotations

She has heard a whisper say, / A curse is on her if she stay / To look down to Camelot.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses

A perfect misanthropist's heaven—and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Or my scrofulous French novel.... / If I double down its pages / At the woeful sixteenth print.

Robert Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

This grew; I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands / As if alive.

Robert Browning, My Last Duchess

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43

Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

Though Nature, red in tooth and claw / With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

There lives more faith in honest doubt / Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

The year is dying in the night; / Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

The Sea of Faith / Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore.

Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach

This process of training, by which the intellect, instead of being formed or sacrificed to ... some specific trade or profession ... is disciplined for its own sake ... and for its own highest culture, is called Liberal Education.

John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University

Criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

Matthew Arnold, The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

The ruling force [in England] is now, and long has been, a Puritan force—the care for fire and strength, strictness of conscience, Hebraism, rather than the care for sweetness and light, spontaneity of consciousness, Hellenism.

Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy

Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices / Squeezed from goblin fruits for you,... / Eat me, drink me, love me.

Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market

For there is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather.

Christian Rossetti, Goblin Market

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But...it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I may mention that I have always suspected you of being a confirmed and secret Bunburyist.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, / The other powerless to be born

Matthew Arnold, "Stanzas from Grand Chartreuse"

There is no scheme which can be devised left unimproved to grind the face of the poor

Brigham Young, Manchester

I needed to ... feel that there was real, permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation. Wordsworth taught me this

John Stuart Mill