Oliver Goldsmith - Book Quotes

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I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

Oliver Goldsmith

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

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They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

Oliver Goldsmith

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.

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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.

Oliver Goldsmith

Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

Oliver Goldsmith