“Recitare una commedia non puramente sentimentale, fu cosa pericolosissima.”
Origine: Citato in Enrico Piceni, introduzione a Christopher Morley, Tuono a sinistra, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1947.
Oliver Goldsmith è stato uno scrittore e drammaturgo irlandese.

“Recitare una commedia non puramente sentimentale, fu cosa pericolosissima.”
Origine: Citato in Enrico Piceni, introduzione a Christopher Morley, Tuono a sinistra, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1947.
“[…] è bello colui che agisce bene.”
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: Il vicario di Wakefield, p. 12
“L'uomo dal morso guarì, | e fu il cane che morì.”
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: Il vicario di Wakefield, p. 109
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: Il vicario di Wakefield, p. 83
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: Il vicario di Wakefield, p. 5
Origine: Da The Citizen of the World, lettera XV; citato in Peter Singer, Utilitarismo e vegetarianesimo, in Aa. Vv., Etica e animali, traduzione di Brunella Casalini, Liguori Editore, Napoli, 1998, p. 253 (in epigrafe). ISBN 88-207-2686-6
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Utet, 1966, p. 192
Il vicario di Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Utet, 1966, p. 62
Il vicario di Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: Il vicario di Wakefield, p. 50
“Quella virtù che ha sempre bisogno di essere custodita, non vale la pena che la si custodisca.”
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Utet, 1966, p. 36
Il vicario di Wakefield
“So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar
But bind him to his native mountains more.”
Origine: The Traveller (1764), Line 217.
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
“But winter lingering chills the lap of May.”
Origine: The Traveller (1764), Line 172.
“The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.”
Origine: The Traveller (1764), Line 356.
“Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!”
Origine: The Traveller (1764), Line 50.
“Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 344.
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 9.
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 4.
“As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.”
Origine: Retaliation (1774), Line 96.
Oliver Goldsmith libro The Citizen of the World
The Citizen of the World (1760–1761), Letter VII.
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 157.
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 167.
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 189.
“We are the boys
That fear no noise
Where the thundering cannons roar.”
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
“The very pink of perfection.”
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
“O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 385.
“The dog, to gain some private ends,
Went mad, and bit the man.”
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 5.
“The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm,
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.”
Origine: The Traveller (1764), Line 137.
“We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.”
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Preface.
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 29, Song, st. 2.
Origine: Retaliation (1774), Line 29.
“Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 223.
Origine: Retaliation (1774), Line 24.
“Oh sir! I must not tell my age.
They say women and music should never be dated.”
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act III
“I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.”
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 7.
“To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?”
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 19.
“A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 141.