Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 10. November 1728 |
Geburtsort | Either Ballymahon, County Longford, Kingdom of Ireland, or Elphin, County Roscommon, Kingdom of Ireland |
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Beschreibung | Oliver Goldsmith (10. November 1728 - 4. April 1774) war ein anglo-irischer Romancier, Dramatiker und Dichter, der vor allem für seinen Roman The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), sein pastorales Gedicht The Deserted Village (1770) und seine Theaterstücke The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) und She Stoops to Conquer (1771, uraufgeführt 1773) bekannt ist. Es wird vermutet, dass er das klassische Kindermärchen The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765) geschrieben hat. |
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
