Goldwin Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Above all nations is humanity,
-- Goldwin Smith

#Humanity
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.
-- Goldwin Smith

#London #Poetic #Deeper
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Country #Kings #Rome
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Beauty #Heart #Ignorant
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.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Running #Hype #Mind
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Jesus #Grace #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.
-- Goldwin Smith

#America #Ugly #Pretentious
Personality is lower than partiality.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Personality #Partiality
The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Scotland #Borders #Kingdoms
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Art #Believe #People
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Political #Village #Ottawa
Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Doors #Might #Canada
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Artist #Age #Students
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Real #Humanity #Novelists
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Sympathy #Party #Humanity
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Government #Rome #Law
The father of confederation is deadlock.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Father
We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Race #Humanity #Unions
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Character #Arrogance #Jokes
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.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Eye #Political #Enemy
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Art #Expression #Art Is
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Country #Black #Would Be
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Religious #Age #Church
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
-- Goldwin Smith

#Discipline #Soldier #Firsts
Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'
-- Goldwin Smith

#Names #Two #Canada

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