Oliver Goldsmith Quotes - Page 14

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• And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Knowledge, Science, Intelligent

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 211

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• Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Integrity, Understanding, Ethics

  Oliver Goldsmith (1803). “The Beauties of Goldsmith, Or, The Complete Treasury of Genius: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.106

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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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• 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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• Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sports, Home, Waiting

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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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• Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Heart, Men, Compassion

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition”, p.325

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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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• We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Nature, Science, Curiosity

  Oliver Goldsmith (1847). “A history of the earth and animated nature, with an intr. view of the animal kingdom tr. from the Fr. of baron Cuvier, notes [and] a life of the author by W. Irving”, p.73

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• Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend,
  And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Friends, Blessing, Dwelling

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.22

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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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• 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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• 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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• All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Faults, One Love

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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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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• Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

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  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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• Alas! the joys that fortune brings
  Are trifling, and decay,
  And those who prize the trifling things,
  More trifling still than they.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Joy, Decay, Fortune

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.5

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• Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Giving, Heaven

  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.159

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

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  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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• If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.

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  Science, Looks, World

  Oliver Goldsmith (1823). “A history of the earth, and animated nature”, p.2

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