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“Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see
Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 11.

“One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.”

Oliver Goldsmith

No. 1 (Oct. 6, 1759).
The Bee (1759)

“The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love,
The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 29.

“Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 327.

“As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.”

Oliver Goldsmith

No. 175, Upon Unfortunate Merit.
The Bee (1759)

“Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Act I, Scene 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=sZloXETcr24C&q=%22Don't+let+us+make+imaginary+evils+when+you+know+we+have+so+many+real+ones+to+encounter%22&pg=PA21#v=onepage. <br class="br">The Good-Natured Man (1768)

“Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.
Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,
And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 161.

“Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 1.

“Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he;
Full well the busy whisper circling round
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.
Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault;
The village all declar'd how much he knew,
'T was certain he could write and cipher too.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Variant: A man severe he was, and stern to view;
I knew him well, and every truant knew:
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he;
Full well the bust whisper, circling round,
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned;
Yet he was kind; or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault;
The village all declared how much he knew;
'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too.
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 199.

“A flattering painter, who made it his care
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 63.

“No flocks that range the valley free
To slaughter I condemn;
Taught by that Power that pities me,
I learn to pity them:
But from the mountain’s grassy side
A guiltless feast I bring;
A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied,
And water from the spring.”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: 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.”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 16.

“The king himself has followed her
When she has walk'd before.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize, st. 5.
The Bee (1759)

“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genus a better discerning.”

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I

“Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 26.

“This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)

“Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!
With baskets.”

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV

“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 13.

“Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see,
My heart untraveled fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 7.

“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”

Oliver Goldsmith

Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)