Add Quote by Oliver Goldsmith Download Open image “Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.” — Oliver Goldsmith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Add Giving Giving up Impudence Never giving up Villainy
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
What makes a good villain is someone who doesn't just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character's history and circumstances. — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain. — Chris Hemsworth Copy Share Image
A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think villainy just comes naturally to me. I get to work it out naturally so I can be a nice person in life. — Miguel Ferrer Copy Share Image
No villain thinks of himself as a villain, and that's the approach I always take. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot. — Lisa Kleypas 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
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own! — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news… — Matt Cutts Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
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