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! <br class="br">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. <br class="br">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.”
Oliver Goldsmith livro The Citizen of the World
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue ! <br class="br">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. <br class="br">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 <br class="br">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 <br class="br">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
“How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 99.
Oliver Goldsmith livro The Vicar of Wakefield
Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 1.
“For just experience tells; in every soil,
That those that think must govern those that toil.”
Fonte: The Traveller (1764), Line 371.
“The first blow is half the battle.”
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
Fonte: Retaliation (1774), Line 145.
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 227.
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
“Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 179.
“All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.”
Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
“Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centers in the mind.”
Fonte: The Traveller (1764), Line 423.
“The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 232.
Verses in reply to an invitation to dine at Dr. Baker's.