Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

Oliver Goldsmith

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• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

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• I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.

  

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• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  

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• With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

  

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• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

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• Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

  

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• I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.

  

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• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

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• Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

  

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• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

  

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• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

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• I do what I can do to help my defense.

  

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• I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

  

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• Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

  

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• It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

  

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• I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

  

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• I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.

  

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• In every community in Illinois, same-sex couples have chosen to join together and, in many instances, to raise families of their own. These couples are our relatives and friends, our neighbors, co-workers and parents of our children's classmates. They deserve the same rights and responsibilities that civil marriage offers straight couples.

  

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• Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

  

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• There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

  

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• I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

  

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• La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

  

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• When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Character
  • Bad
  • House