Oliver Goldsmith citáty

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„Milovat své bližní jako sebe sama je spravedlnost. Ale milovat je více než sebe, to je pravá láska.“

„Zklamání v lásce zapříčiňuje neštěstí v mládí, zklamání nad ctižádostí ve zralém věku a zklamání pro nevděčnost ve stáří.“

„Láska je nakažena žárlivostí a přátelství lichocením.“

„Láska k druhému je metoda, jak naší sebelásce zajistit další trvání.“

„Neptej se mě na nic, a nebudu ti lhát.“

„Každý dar, který člověk přijme, ho do jisté míry ponižuje a ubírá důstojnost. Podle jeho hodnoty ztrácí jistou část své nezávislosti.“

„Ženy nejsou stvořeny k tomu, aby snášely velké starosti, ale k tomu, aby je zmírňovaly.“

„Srdce je olovnice, která přesně ukazuje, kam směřuje naše myšlení.“

“Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,
And guide my lonely way
To where yon taper cheers the vale
With hospitable ray.”

“As aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crush'd or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.”

“For just experience tells; in every soil,
That those that think must govern those that toil.”

“The first blow is half the battle.”

“When he talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff,
He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.”

“Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days
Have led their children through the mirthful maze,
And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,
Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.”

“The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;
The chest contrived a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.”

“Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.”

“Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.”

“All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.”

“Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centers in the mind.”

“The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.”

“You may all go to pot.”