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
simple greatness justice
There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.
love faults one-love
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
ignorance riches wealth
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
lonely cheer loneliness
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
husband children character
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
bees amusement should
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
fortune industry
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
running average risk
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.
law generosity duty
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
inspirational-life men long
Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
sarcastic handsome coffins
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
goodbye brother pain
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.
science linked
All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
writing criticism world
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.