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“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield
“Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find.”
Source: The Deserted Village, The Traveler, and Other Poems
“Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.”
Source: She Stoops to Conquer
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B..
“In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.”
“Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.”
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller
“Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good-natured man. She stoops to conquer; or, the Mistakes of a night. An oratorio. Prefaces. [Criticisms
“Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living”
Source: Poems, Plays and Essays
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductions
“I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.”
Source: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, Introductions, etc
“Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.”
Source: Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone
“Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
“Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.”
Source: Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone
Source: His Works
“By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.”
Source: Works: With a Life and Notes
“Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition
“Nobody with me at sea but myself.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield
“Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world
“Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely”
“To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.”
Source: The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East
“How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!”
“The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.”
Source: Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod
“The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.”
Source: The Beauties of Goldsmith
“And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.”
Source: Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone
Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history
“It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductions
“How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
“To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield
Source: Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author
“In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.”
Source: Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world
“Those who think must govern those that toil.”
Source: The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume
“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”
“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”