Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• 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

• Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without a heart?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Art, Integrity

  "The Vicar of Wakefield".

• The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lying, Archer, Heart

• The wretch condemn'd with life to part,
  Still, still on hope relies;
  And every pang that rends the heart
  Bids expectation rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hope, Heart, Expectations

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.120

• Thus let me hold thee to my heart,
  And every care resign:
  And we shall never, never part,
  My life-my all that's mine!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Heart, Care

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.147

• To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Art, Simplicity, Charm

  Oliver Goldsmith, Walter MACLEOD (of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea.) (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.71

• A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Kindness, Heart, Clothes

  'Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog'

• 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.

• What is genius or courage without a heart?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Leadership, Courage, Heart

  Oliver Goldsmith (1803). “The Beauties of Goldsmith, Or, The Complete Treasury of Genius: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.106

• Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
  My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
  Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
  And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Missing You, Goodbye, Missing Someone

  'The Traveller' (1764) l. 7

• Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Home, Heart

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world”, p.106

• Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Heart, Men, Compassion

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition”, p.325

• A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Heart, Men, Gains

  Oliver Goldsmith (1828). “The Vicar of Wakefield, a Tale: To which is Annexed The Deserted Village ...”, p.23

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