 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...Sc. I. " The true touchstone of desert — success." BYRON. Marino Falicro (Doge), Act I., Sc. II. " The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." GOLDSMITH. The Bee, No. III. "The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 320 pages
...they hold, and I think with some show of reason, that he who best knows how to conceal his necessities and desires is the most likely person to find redress,...is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.1 When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favors, we shall find... | |
 | 1902 - 784 pages
...words only to conceal their thoughts.) Seven years previous Goldsmith had said much the same thing: — The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. — The Bee No. 3. (Oct. 20, 1759.) Now, in this same year 1759. there appeared a posthumous collection... | |
 | Cuyler Reynolds - Alcoholic beverages - 1902 - 504 pages
...No sooner does he take pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him. BOSWELL, Life of Johnson. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. GOLDSMITH, The Bee. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. BOSWELI.,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1903 - 310 pages
...who best knows how to keep his necessities private is the most likely person to have them redressed ; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal ••them.l When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, there appears... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...communicate their mind ; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. — ROBEIIT SOUTH : Strmim, April 30, 1S7S. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. — GOLDSMITH : The Bee, No. 3. (Oct. 20, 1759.) Ils ne se servent de la penso"e que pour autoriser... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, Irish - 1903 - 482 pages
...the poor : an essay to prove that he who best knew how to conceal his necessities and desires, was the most likely person to find redress, and that the true use of speech was not to express wants, but conceal them. All of us have known the Jack Spindle of this exquisite... | |
 | Edward Latham - Quotations - 1906 - 338 pages
...1763J. (They only use thought to wartant their injustices and words only to di-guise their thoughts.) "The true use of speech is not so "much to express our wants as to "conceal them." — Goldsmith, The Bee, Oct. 20, 1759. "Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, "And men talk only... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations, English - 1906 - 1198 pages
...wise men, whereby to conceal it. — ROBERT SOUTH : Sermon, April 30, 1876. The true use of speecli is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. — GOLDSMITH : The Bee, No. 3. (Oct. 20, 1759.) Ils ne ?e servent de la pensée que pour autoriser... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...best knows how to keep his necessities private, is the most likely person to have them redressed ; V+ ftoldsmith. There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.... | |
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... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. 
