Quote by Matthew Arnold
People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Ha

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. – Matthew Arnold

Other quotes by Matthew Arnold

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern. – Matthew Arnold

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Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat. – Matthew Arnold

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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. – Joseph Addison

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. – W. H. Auden

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. – Margaret Anderson

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. – Walter Bagehot

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