Oliver 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
Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 6-7.
“It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”
Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 16.
“The king himself has followed her
When she has walk'd before.”
Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize, st. 5.
The Bee (1759)
“This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.”
Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
“Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!
With baskets.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV
“Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.”
Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 8.
“I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 3.
“On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;
'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.”
Fonte: Retaliation (1774), Line 101.
Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 19.
“The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.”
Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 33.
Act II.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)
“They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”
Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 329.
“And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.”
Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 263.
“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”
Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 8.
“To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.”
Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 253.