Oliver Goldsmith citáty

„Mám rád všetko, čo je staré; starých priateľov, staré časy, staré spôsoby, staré knihy, staré vína.“

„Človek, ktorý opustí domov, aby zlepšil seba a ostatných, je filozof; kto ide z jednej krajiny do druhej vedený slepým pudom zvedavosti, je obyčajný vagabund.“

„Jeho najlepší spoločníci, nevinnosť a zdravie; a jeho najlepšie bohatstvo, nepoznanie bohatstva.“

„Kniha môže byť zábavná s mnohými chybami, alebo môže byť veľmi nudná bez jediného nezmyslu.“

„Ľudia sa zriedka polepšia, keď nemajú žiadny iný vzor na napodobňovanie ako samých seba.“

„Milovať svojich blížnych ako seba samého je spravodlivosť; ale milovať ich viac ako seba, to je pravá láska.“

„Priateľstvo je nezištný styk medzi seberovnými; láska je úbohý styk medzi tyranmi a otrokmi.“

„Srdce je olovnica, ktorá presne ukazuje, kam smeruje naše myslenie.“

„Vybral som si manželku tak, ako ona svoje svadobné šaty, nie pre ich jemný, lesklý povrch, ale pre také vlastnosti, ktoré sa dobre nosia.“

„Zákony drvia chudobných a bohatí ovládajú zákon.“

„Žarty boháčov sú vždy vtipné.“

“I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.”

“O Memory! thou fond deceiver.”

“Handsome is that handsome does.”

“Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is, at home.”

“For he who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he who is in battle slain
Can never rise and fight again.”

“That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.”

“By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;
The sports of children satisfy the child.”

“These little things are great to little man.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.”

“The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.”

“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”

“Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel.”

“The best-humour'd man, with the worst-humour'd Muse.”

“When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy?
What art can wash her guilt away?”

“To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.”

“[To Mr. Johnson] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”

“Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails,
And honor sinks where commerce long prevails.”

“He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.”

“The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.”

“Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can,
An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.”

“That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.”

“Even children followed with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.”

“I…chose a wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.”

“The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.”

“Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.”

“There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.”

“They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,
Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.”