Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Trade

Quotes about: Trade

• Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Business, Haste, Decay

  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.209

• To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gentleman, Barbers, Fine

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: including a variety of pieces now first collected”, p.23

• The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Eye, Home, Sight

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings”, p.277

• But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train
  Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain;
  Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose,
  Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Land, Rose, Wealth

  Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1851). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected”, p.66

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