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
fall genius lines
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.
happiness moments ifs
If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?
echoes desert cry
Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
circles luxury want
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
chains drag length
By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.
eye pride lord
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
dog morality reason
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
reading age pulpit
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
heirs world creation
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
men poetic live-by
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
men care made
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
men mark
Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
business sides combination
Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
thank-you pain want
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.