Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Fashion

Quotes about: Fashion

• Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
  And still where many a garden flower grows wild,
  There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
  The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
  A man he was to all the country dear,
  And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
  Remote from town's he ran his godly race,
  Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place;
  Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power,
  By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour;
  Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize.
  More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Fashion, Flower

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.69

• And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fashion, Art, Joy

  1770 The Deserted Village, l.263-4.

• A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fashion, Ignorance, Order

  "On the Ladies' Passion for Levelling All Distinction of Dress". Essay by Oliver Goldsmith,

• What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion
  And that which we do with the dead,
  Is the name of the honestest man in the nation:
  What more of a man can be said?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fashion, Men, Names

  Oliver Goldsmith (1900). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith”

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