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
ambition forever ambitious
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
grief silence silent
In all the silent manliness of grief.
intelligent wonder grew
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
disappointment mind disappointing
As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
life mother lost-love
As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
life heart care
Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!
simple acting natural
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
art salt harm
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
long commerce honour
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
happiness smile laughter
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
giving brain intelligence
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
love art betrayal
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
color romance taste
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!
geek conquer should
They say women and music should never be dated.