Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Ignorance, Riches, Wealth

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 51

• Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Endeavor

  Oliver Goldsmith (1819). “Letters From A Citizen Of The World: To His Friends In The East”, p.135

• Prudery is ignorance.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Ignorance

• 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,

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