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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) His best companions, innocence and health; and his best riches, ignorance of wealth  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, and round his dwelling guardian saints attend  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) Wisdom makes but a slow defence against trouble, though at last a sure one  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) 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?  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) 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 Quotes) Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) 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 Quotes) Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, with grammar, and nonsense, and learning, good liquor, I stoutly maintain, gives genius a better discerning  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes) There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue  (Oliver Goldsmith Quotes)
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