Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmithwas an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Manand She Stoops to Conquer. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 November 1730
CountryIreland
anniversary wedding wife
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
laughter laughing way
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
hope cheer night
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
modesty virtue breasts
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
champion absurdity
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
individuality woe goodness
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
integrity heart understanding
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart?
giving silence consent
Silence gives consent.
want use speech
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
wish age pleasure
Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?
names soul want
If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.