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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.



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



The first blow is half the battle.



Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by.



Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.



To make a fine, gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.



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



Tenderness is a virtue.



Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough, and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.



His conduct still right with his argument wrong.



One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.



Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.








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