Obras
The Citizen of the World
Oliver GoldsmithOliver Goldsmith Frases famosas
the true use of speech is not so much to express our wauls as to conceal them.
Essays - página 25, Oliver Goldsmith - D. Appleton, 1841 - 164 páginas
I have seen the very men who have thus boasted of their tenderness at the same time devouring flesh of six different animals tossed up in a fricassee. Strange contrariety of conduct! they pity, and they eat the objects of their compassion!
The citizen of the world, or, Letters from a Chinese philosopher residing in London to his friends in the East, Volume 1 - Página 52 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=CyUvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA52, Oliver Goldsmith - Printed for Taylor & Hessey and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry, 1809
“A virtude que se precisa vigiar o tempo inteiro só é digna da sentinela.”
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded, is scarcely worth the sentinel.
The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, including a variety of pieces now first collected by J. Prior - Página 41 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=hc4IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41, Oliver Goldsmith, James Prior - George P. Putnam, 1853
“As leis inglesas punem as faltas; as leis chinesas fazem mais do que isso: recompensam os méritos.”
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue !
The citizen of the world, Volumes 1-2 - Página 65 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=A_0kAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA65, Oliver Goldsmith - J. and R. Childs, 1820
“Você prega um sermão melhor com sua vida do que com seus lábios.”
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Novyĭ ukraïnsʹko-angliĭsʹkyĭ providnyk abo samouk: dli︠a︡ vyvchenni︠a︡si︠a︡, pysaty i hovoryty po angliĭsʹky z vymovoi︠u︡ bez pomochi uchyteli︠a︡ - Página 307, Editora Nakl. Ukraïnsʹkoï knyharni, 1927 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=68nTAAAAMAAJ - 240 páginas
Variante: Você pode fazer um sermão melhor com sua vida do que com os seus lábios.
Oliver Goldsmith frases e citações
“A amizade é um comércio desinteressado entre semelhantes”
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals
The poetical and dramatic works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Now first collected. With an account of the life and writings of the author - Volume 2, Página 19 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=OsgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA19, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Evans - Printed by H. Goldney, for Messieurs Rivington, T. Carnan and F. Newbery, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; T. Lowndes and G. Kearsley, in Fleet-Street; T. Cadell and T. Evans in the Strand., 1780
Oliver Goldsmith: Frases em inglês
Act II.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
“I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield
“Handsome is that handsome does.”
Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 1.
“Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is, at home.”
Fonte: The Traveller (1764), Line 73.
The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761), vol. ii. p. 147.
The saying "he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day" dates at least as far back as Menander (ca. 341–290 B.C.), Gnomai Monostichoi, aphorism #45: ἀνήρ ὁ ϕɛύγων καὶ ράλίν μαχήɛṯαί (a man who flees will fight again). The Attic Nights (book 17, ch. 21) of Aulus Gellius (ca. 125–180 A.D.) indicates it was already widespread in the second century: "...the orator Demosthenes sought safety in flight from the battlefield, and when he was bitterly taunted with his flight, he jestingly replied in the well-known verse: The man who runs away will fight again".
“That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.”
Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 5.
“By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;
The sports of children satisfy the child.”
Fonte: The Traveller (1764), Line 153.
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Variante: Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Fonte: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
“Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.”
She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act III
Variante: Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
Fonte: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 29, Song, st. 1.
“To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.”
Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 21.
“[To Mr. Johnson] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”
From James Boswell's Life of Johnson (1791), April 27, 1773.
“Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails,
And honor sinks where commerce long prevails.”
Fonte: The Traveller (1764), Line 91.
Fonte: Retaliation (1774), Line 107.
“Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can,
An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.”
Fonte: Retaliation (1774), Line 93.
“Even children followed with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.”
Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 183.
“The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.”
Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 121.
“Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.”
Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 413.
From James Boswell's Life of Johnson (1791), October 26, 1769.
Fonte: The Traveller (1764), Line 265.