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
nature book volume
The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
talking age whispering
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.
virtue guarded scarce
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
hope
Hope, like the gleaming taper
sarcastic arguing
I always get the better when I argue alone.
ambition giving grows
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
want argument protest
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.
serious arguing argument
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
business decay proud
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.
happiness moments ifs
If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?
littles favors sometimes
We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.
names society noblemen
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
horse character house
When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
pay prejudice tribute
Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.