Oliver Goldsmith Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 10, 1730 - April 4, 1774
Birthday: November 10
Death: April 4
Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
source: Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Essays”, p.3
topic: Perfect, May, Tables, Mackerel, Poignancy
