Oliver Goldsmith Art Quotations

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.