John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Oliver Goldsmith. (1730?–1774) (continued) |
| 4342 |
| A night-cap deck’d his brows instead of bay,— A cap by night, a stocking all the day. 1 |
| Description of an Author’s Bed-chamber. |
| 4343 |
| This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. 2 |
| The Good-Natured Man. Act i. |
| 4344 |
| All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them. |
| The Good-Natured Man. Act i. |
| 4345 |
| Silence gives consent. 3 |
| The Good-Natured Man. Act ii. |
| 4346 |
| Measures, not men, have always been my mark. 4 |
| The Good-Natured Man. Act ii. |
| 4347 |
| I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. 5 |
| She Stoops to Conquer. Act i. |
| 4348 |
| The very pink of perfection. |
| She Stoops to Conquer. Act i. |
| 4349 |
| The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. |
| She Stoops to Conquer. Act i. |
| 4350 |
| I ’ll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon. |
| She Stoops to Conquer. Act i. |
| 4351 |
| Ask me no questions, and I ’ll tell you no fibs. |
| She Stoops to Conquer. Act iii. |
| 4352 |
| We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours. |
| Vicar of Wakefield. Chap. i. |
| 4353 |
| Handsome is that handsome does. 6 |
| Vicar of Wakefield. Chap. i. |
| 4354 |
| The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the |
| Note 1. See page Quotation 43. [back] |
| Note 2. Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.—Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld: Maxim 22. [back] |
| Note 3. Ray: Proverbs. Thomas Fuller: Wise Sentences. [greek]—Euripides: Iph. Aul., 1142. [back] |
| Note 4. Measures, not men.—Earl of Chesterfield: Letter, Mar. 6, 1742. Not men, but measures.—Edmund Burke: Present Discontents. [back] |
| Note 5. See Bacon, Quotation 57. [back] |
| Note 6. See Chaucer, Quotation 32. [back] |