Coffins Quote by Oliver Goldsmith Download Open image “He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.” — Oliver Goldsmith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Coffins Corpses Handsome Inspirational Sarcastic
“His face was a ghost story: graveyard eyes, cheekbones as sharp as urban legends, a sealed-coffin mouth.” — Allyse Near Copy Share Image
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is. — Janice Dickinson Copy Share Image
Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin. — Dan Rice Copy Share Image
I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin. — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own. — Tove Ditlevsen Copy Share Image