Oliver Goldsmith Quotes


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


Citations

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Good Natur'd Man: A Comedy. W. Griffin, 1768, p. 10.

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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
  • Born: November 10, 1728
  • Died: April 4, 1774
  • Nationality: Irish
  • Profession: Playwright, Poet, Busker, Apothecary's Assistant

Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).