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
geek conquer should
They say women and music should never be dated.
bees amusement should
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
book vices should
Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
philosophy should increase
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
musical taste
With other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
nice proud
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.
govern thoughts-and-thinking
Those that think must govern those that toil.
begin gaiety gay levity lose melancholy natives remarkable serious time western
To begin with Ireland, the most western part of the continent, the natives are peculiarly remarkable for their gaiety and levity of their disposition ; the English, transplanted there, in time lose their serious melancholy air, and become gay and tho
beside fence
Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, / With blossomed furze unprofitably gay.
coat priest religion shoes
As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest
fond pursue
Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
laughter laughing way
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
people desire thousand
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
becomes coffin handsome
I am told he makes a very handsome corpse, and becomes his coffin prodigiously.