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Letter "O" » Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
«The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.»
«The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
philosopher, relieve, struggling
«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!»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
charming, consummate, consummated, consummating, deceptive, describe, destructive, novel
«They say women and music should never be dated»
«Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.»
«Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Conscience
| Keywords:
accuse, coward
«Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
abject, commerce, disinterested, equals, intercourse, slaves, tyrants
«Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.»
«Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
discerning, grammar, liquor, schoolmasters
«Tenderness is a virtue.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Tenderness
| Keywords:
tenderness
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