What did Oliver Goldsmith mean by: Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland Copy
+ I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Birthday, Friendship, Love, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ Even children follow’d with endearing wile, And pluck’d his gown, to share the good man’s smile. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Children, Good Man, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Justice, Toil, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Duty, Generosity, Law, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Age, Talking, Whispering, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Intelligent, Knowledge, Science, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Eye, Lord, Pride, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
+ Our Garrick ‘s a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree! Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Oliver Goldsmith, Agreement, Oil, Sugar, 0 - Oliver Goldsmith Playwright and novelist · Ireland
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty. - Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin Magician · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
