What did Oliver Goldsmith mean by: Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru. Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland Copy
All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Attitude, Resilience, Stoicism, 0 Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. Author, December 23, 2023December 29, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Inequality, Vanity, Wealth, 0 Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Criticism, Improvement, Writing, 0 Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Deception, Disappointment, Pleasure, 0 Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Achievement, Persistence, Resilience, 0 Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Errors, Humor, 0 Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Journey, Philosophy, Stability, 0 Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Leadership, Power, Struggle, 0 Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. Franz Werfel Novelist · Austria
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. Friedrich Schiller Playwright · Germany
Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening. Mary Wigman Dancer · Germany