Oliver Goldsmith Book Quotations

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.

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.