| 126 Famous Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
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“Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came,
And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame;
Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease,
Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.”
Flattery Quotes Source: Retaliation (l. 109)
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“O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.”
Luxury Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 385)
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“Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt:
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.”
Luxury Quotes Source: Haunch of Venison
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“Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill;
Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.”
Misers Quotes Source: The Traveller
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“Let observation with observant view,
Observe mankind from China to Peru.”
Traveling Quotes Source: paraphrasing of Johnson
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“Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.”
Wishes Quotes Source: The Hermit (st. 8)
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“Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,
And guide my lonely way
To where you taper cheers the vale
With hospitable ray.”
Help Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield--The Hermit (ch. VIII)
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“He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.”
Sympathy Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 166)
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“Blame where you must, be candid where you can,
And be each critic the Good-natured Man.”
Criticism Quotes Source: The Good-Natured Man (epilogue)
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“They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company,
with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste,
Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.”
Conversation Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. IX)
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“They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem
Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.”
Ambition Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 266)
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“I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden
shoes.”
France Quotes Source: Essays (24 (1765 ed.)), appeared in the "British Magazine", June, 1760
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“Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease
Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please.”
France Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 241), said of France
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“I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.”
Haste Quotes Source: She Stoops to Conquer (act I, sc. 2)
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“"Very well," cried I, "that's a good girl; I find you are
perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go help your
mother to make the gooseberry bye."”
Cookery Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. VII)
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“That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.”
Disease Quotes Source: Double Transformation (l. 75)
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“His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve in every part,
His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.”
Art Quotes Source: Retaliation (l. 139)
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“The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.”
Art Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 137)
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“Thus idly busy rolls their world away.”
Idleness Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 256)
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“Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound.
And news much older than their ale went round.”
News Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 223)
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“The pictures placed for ornament and use,
The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.”
Cards Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 231)
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“The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is--to die.”
Shame Quotes Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XXIV)
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“Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth;
If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.”
Faults Quotes Source: Retaliation (l. 24)
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“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”
Modesty Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 329)
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“As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.”
Wit Quotes Source: Retaliation (l. 96)
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