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
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.
games gambling ornaments
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
prison crime
Crimes generally punish themselves.
book tears cry
They liked the book better the more it made them cry.
flames astonishment lightning
This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.
laughing alcohol usual
I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
luxury heaven decree
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!