Quote #31

Handsome is that handsome does.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Oliver Goldsmith

  1. We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.
  2. That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
  3. I...chose a wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
  4. I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.
  5. A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
  6. Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
  7. Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
  8. She was all of a muck of sweat.

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