“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
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 6-7.
“It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 16.
“The king himself has followed her
When she has walk'd before.”
Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize, st. 5.
The Bee (1759)
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
“Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.”
Origine: The Traveller (1764), Line 26.
“This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.”
Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
“Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!
With baskets.”
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 13.
“Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.”
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 8.
“I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.”
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
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. 3.
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 10.
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 109.
“On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;
'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.”
Origine: Retaliation (1774), Line 101.
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 19.
“The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.”
Oliver Goldsmith libro Il vicario di Wakefield
Origine: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 33.
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 211.
Act II.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)
“Who peppered the highest was surest to please.”
Origine: Retaliation (1774), Line 112.
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
“They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.”
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 329.
“And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 263.
“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”
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. 8.
“To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Origine: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 253.