Frases de Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith fue un escritor y médico irlandés, conocido sobre todo por su novela El vicario de Wakefield , su poema pastoral La aldea abandonada , y sus obras The Good-natur'd Man y Doblegada para vencer . También se cree que escribió el cuento clásico para niños The History of Little Goody Two Shoes. Perteneció al círculo del Dr Samuel Johnson, quien siempre tendría en alta estima su obra . Se cree que Johnson redactó y corrigió muchos de los poemas de Goldsmith. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. noviembre 1728 – 4. abril 1774
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Frases célebres de Oliver Goldsmith

“Aprende el placer de hacer el bien.”

The Traveller (1764)

Oliver Goldsmith Frases y Citas

“Nada puede superar la vanidad de nuestra existencia si no es la locura de nuestros esfuerzos.”

Fuente: [Ortega Blake], Arturo (2013), en Google Books. https://books.google.cat/books?hl=es&id=QJIAVIKP1dgC&q=Oliver+Goldsmith#v=snippet&q=Oliver%20Goldsmith&f=false Consultado el 27 de diciembre de 2019.

“Los hombres pueden ser muy sabios y, sin embargo, muy miserables. Es fácil ser un gran matemático o astrónomo sublime, pero muy difícil ser un buen hombre.”

Fuente: [Amate Pou], Jordi (2017) en Google Books. https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=MHJNDwAAQBAJ&q=olivar+goldsmith#v=onepage&q=oliver%20goldsmith&f=false Consultado el 27 de diciembre de 2019.

“La amistad es un comercio desinteresado entre semejantes.”

Fuente: [Amate Pou], Jordi (2017) en Google Books. https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=MHJNDwAAQBAJ&q=olivar+goldsmith#v=onepage&q=oliver%20goldsmith&f=false Consultado el 27 de diciembre de 2019.

“En tu relación con cualquier persona, pierdes mucho si no te tomas el tiempo necesario para comprenderla.”

Fuente: [Amate Pou], Jordi (2017) en Google Books. https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=MHJNDwAAQBAJ&q=olivar+goldsmith#v=onepage&q=oliver%20goldsmith&f=false Consultado el 27 de diciembre de 2019.

Oliver Goldsmith: Frases en inglés

Oliver Goldsmith frase: “Silence gives consent.”

“Silence gives consent.”

Act II.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)

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

Oliver Goldsmith libro The Vicar of Wakefield

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
Fuente: The Vicar of Wakefield

“O Memory! thou fond deceiver.”

Act I.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)

“Handsome is that handsome does.”

Oliver Goldsmith libro The Vicar of Wakefield

Fuente: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 1.

“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.”

The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761), vol. ii. p. 147.
The saying "he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day" dates at least as far back as Menander (ca. 341–290 B.C.), Gnomai Monostichoi, aphorism #45: ἀνήρ ὁ ϕɛύγων καὶ ράλίν μαχήɛṯαί (a man who flees will fight again). The Attic Nights (book 17, ch. 21) of Aulus Gellius (ca. 125–180 A.D.) indicates it was already widespread in the second century: "...the orator Demosthenes sought safety in flight from the battlefield, and when he was bitterly taunted with his flight, he jestingly replied in the well-known verse: The man who runs away will fight again".

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

Oliver Goldsmith libro The Vicar of Wakefield

Fuente: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 5.

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

Variante: Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Fuente: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act III
Variante: Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

“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.”

Fuente: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith libro The Vicar of Wakefield

Fuente: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 21.

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

From James Boswell's Life of Johnson (1791), April 27, 1773.

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

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Fuente: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 183.

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

Oliver Goldsmith libro The Vicar of Wakefield

Fuente: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 1.

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

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Fuente: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 121.

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

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Fuente: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 413.