Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• At night returning, every labour sped,
  He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;
  Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys
  His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;
  While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,
  Displays her cleanly platter on the board.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Home, Night

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.139

• By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sports, Children, Caring

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.11

• Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Gay, Skills

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.222

• Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Men, Good Man

  Oliver Goldsmith (1806). “The Poetical Works”, p.31

• Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Children, Fall

  Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1851). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected”, p.197

• She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Husband, Character

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a new life of the author”, p.180

• Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Men, Humanity

  Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “His Works”, p.168

• The sports of children satisfy the child.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sports, Children

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham”, p.11

• For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Art, Children, Simplicity

  Oliver Goldsmith (1840). “The vicar of Wakefield, accentuirt mit Wörterbuche von K.R. Schaub”, p.89

• Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,
  Up yonder hill the village murmur rose;
  There as I passed, with careless steps and slow,
  The mingling notes came soften'd from below;
  The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung,
  The sober herd that low'd to meet their young;
  The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
  The playful children just let loose from school;
  The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
  And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind;
  These all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
  And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Sweet, Children

  Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

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