Culture Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English poet, critic
Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind With the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist
Culture is the bed-rock, the final wall, against which one leans one’s back in a god-forsaken chaos.
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) British author, poet
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, dramatist
The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass it on to others and that is why the world is full of hungry people ready to teach us anything under the sun.
Aubrey Menen (b. 1912) British novelist, essayist
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who, when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
Simone Weil (1909-1943) French mystic, philosopher
Mrs Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) American novelist
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
