Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He also wrote An History of the Earth and Animated Nature. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes".
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“I can’t say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe,
That found’st me poor at first, and keep’st me so.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“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 (1728–1774)
“If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)