Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Oliver Goldsmith

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Oliver Goldsmith

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Oliver Goldsmith

They say women and music should never be dated.

Oliver Goldsmith

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Oliver Goldsmith

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Oliver Goldsmith

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Oliver Goldsmith

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Oliver Goldsmith

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Oliver Goldsmith

I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Oliver Goldsmith

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Oliver Goldsmith

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Oliver Goldsmith

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Oliver Goldsmith

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Oliver Goldsmith

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Oliver Goldsmith

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Oliver Goldsmith

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Oliver Goldsmith

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