Oliver Goldsmith Quotes - Page 10

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• Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
  That bliss which only centers in the mind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Happiness, Mind, Vain

  "Collected Works".

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• The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughter, Malicious, Sneer

  Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.133

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• [T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Mean, Science, Volcanoes

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.26

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• Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Death, Distance, Friendly

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.693

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• The very pink of perfection.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Perfection

  She Stoops to Conquer act 1 (1773)

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• What cities, as great as this, have... promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Weed, Cities, House

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 686-88, The Bee, No, IV. A City Night-Piece, 1922.

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• Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Teacher, Morning, Teaching

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 197

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• Thus let me hold thee to my heart,
  And every care resign:
  And we shall never, never part,
  My life-my all that's mine!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Heart, Care

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.147

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• Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sorrow, Mankind, Let Me

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith ; The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale”, p.8

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• A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Addresses, Sincerity, Silent

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.160

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• As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
  One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show;
  But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
  They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pride, Thinking, House

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.592

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• True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Law, Generosity, Duty

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.183

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• Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Men, Long

  "Edwin and Angelina, or the Hermit" l. 31 (1766).

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• He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sarcastic, Coffins, Handsome

  The Good Natured Man Act I

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• A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fashion, Ignorance, Order

  "On the Ladies' Passion for Levelling All Distinction of Dress". Essay by Oliver Goldsmith,

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• Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gay, Mind, Half

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings”, p.405

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• Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Pleasure, Charm

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• It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  World, Economy, Wells

  Oliver Goldsmith, John Aikin (1809). “Letters from a citizen of the world (concluded). The Bee, a select collection of essays, on the most interesting and entertaining subjects”, p.300

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• What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion
  And that which we do with the dead,
  Is the name of the honestest man in the nation:
  What more of a man can be said?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fashion, Men, Names

  Oliver Goldsmith (1900). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith”

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• There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Students, Pleasure, Attending

  Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.239

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• The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Eye, Home, Sight

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings”, p.277

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• Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
  His first best country ever is at home.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Home, Patriotic

  The Traveller l. 73 (1764)

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• As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Mother, Lost Love

  Oliver Goldsmith (2012). “She Stoops to Conquer”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Punishment, Crime, Familiar

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.144

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• Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Politics, Certain, Attempting

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