| 126 Famous Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
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“Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care
Is to seem everything but what they are.”
Hypocrisy Quotes Source: Epilogue to The Sisters (l. 25)
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“Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd.”
Content Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 210)
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“Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.”
Content Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 91)
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“As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united
voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to
falsehood.”
Lying Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (vol. II, ch. VIII)
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“Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.”
Example Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 170)
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“To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?”
Accident Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XIX)
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“And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd,
Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.”
Weakness Quotes Source: The Traveller
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“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genius a better discerning.”
Liquor Quotes Source: She Stoops to Conquer (act I, sc. 1, song)
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“The man recover'd of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”
Poison Quotes Source: Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
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“How blest is he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.”
Labor Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 99)
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“I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
[Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]”
Labor Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 99)
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“Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first best country ever is at home.”
Patriotism Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 73)
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“So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar,
But bind him to his native mountains more.”
Love of country Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 207)
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“A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,
A cap by night,--a stocking all the day.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Description of an Author's Bedchamber, in "Citizen of the World", Letter 30, "The Author's Club"
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“It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.”
Apparel Quotes Source: The Haunch of Venison
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“The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the
trimmings of the vain.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. IV)
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“Handsome is that handsome does.”
Appearance Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. I), also see Henry Fielding
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“By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.”
Memory Quotes Source: The Citizen of the World (no. 3)
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“Remembrance wakes with all her busy train,
Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.”
Memory Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 81)
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“Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.”
Memory Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 7)
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“To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and
convenience of our lives.”
Circumstance Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XXI)
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“Good people all, with one accord,
Lament for Madame Blaize,
Who never wanted a good word--
From those who spoke her praise.”
Praise Quotes Source: Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize
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“Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head.”
Mountains Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 192)
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“We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to
enhance the value of its favours.”
Providence Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. I)
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“Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:
Full well the busy whisper, circling round,
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.”
Teaching Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 201)
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