Quotes Oliver Goldsmith

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; ...

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philos...

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a li...

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers t...

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou ...

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politene...

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength...

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

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it....

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love,...

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

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails....

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook....

I chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine ...

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities ...

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old ...

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married a...

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

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

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nons...

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad th...

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

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

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only w...

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in ris...