Frases de Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith foi um médico escritor irlandês.

✵ 10. Novembro 1728 – 4. Abril 1774
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Oliver Goldsmith Frases famosas

“Muitas vezes, o uso da palavra não é tanto para exprimir nossos pensamentos, quanto para escondê-los.”

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

“Mas no entanto (consegues acreditar?) eu tenho visto o próprio homem que se gaba da sua ternura, a devorar de uma só vez a carne de seis animais diferentes atirados para uma fricassé. Estranha contradição de conduta! Têm piedade, e comem os objectos da sua compaixão!”

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.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 99.

“Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,
And guide my lonely way
To where yon taper cheers the vale
With hospitable ray.”

Oliver Goldsmith livro The Vicar of Wakefield

Fonte: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 1.

“The first blow is half the battle.”

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.

“The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Fonte: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 232.

“You may all go to pot.”

Verses in reply to an invitation to dine at Dr. Baker's.