Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• 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

• 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

• In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Reading, Age, Instruction

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition”, p.219

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