Dictionary Home » Famous Quotes » discerning

discerning quotes

  • Let school-masters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

    - Oliver Goldsmith
      She Stoops to Conquer, act1, sc.2.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Learn more about discerning

link/cite print suggestion box