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Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

Irish writer and poet

Lived from: 1728 - 1774

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 10 november 1728 Died: 4 april 1774

  • Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
  • Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
  • Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
  • Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
  • Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
  • Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
  • People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
  • There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
  • I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
  • Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
  • Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
  • Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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  • A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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  • Crime generally punishes itself.
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  • To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
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  • A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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  • A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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  • And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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  • As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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  • But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
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  • Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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  • Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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  • Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
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  • Fear guides more than gratitude.
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  • For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.
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  • For just experience tells, in every soil, I that those that think must govern those that toil.
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  • Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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  • Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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  • Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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  • Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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  • He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
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  • Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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What are the most famous quotes from Oliver Goldsmith?

The two most famous quotes from Oliver Goldsmith are:

  • "A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation."
  • "Crime generally punishes itself."

When did Oliver Goldsmith live?

Oliver Goldsmith was born in 1728 and died in the year 1774.