Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

• The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Friendship, Book, Reading

  Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history”, p.335

• I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Tears, Cry

  "She Stoops to Conquer".

• A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Errors, Dull

  Oliver Goldsmith (1806). “The Vicar of Wakefield”, p.13

• As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Reading, Desire

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.391

• The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Nature, Book, Volume

  Oliver Goldsmith (1801). “The Beauties of Goldsmith”, p.108

• One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Body, Pages

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.353

• Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Vices, Should

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a new life of the author”, p.219

• In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Proportion, New Books

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a new life of the author”, p.219

• Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wise, Kings, Real

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Essays and The Bee”

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