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
“How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.”
Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 99.
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.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
Fonte: Retaliation (1774), Line 145.
“Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.”
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.”
Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 232.
Verses in reply to an invitation to dine at Dr. Baker's.