Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm, The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

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

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please

Oliver Goldsmith

I love everything thats old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

Oliver Goldsmith

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

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

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

Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

Oliver Goldsmith

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil

Oliver Goldsmith

Nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty.

Oliver Goldsmith

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Oliver Goldsmith

Thus idly busy rolls their world away