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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
— Oliver Goldsmith
To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
— Oliver Goldsmith
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
— Oliver Goldsmith
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
— Oliver Goldsmith
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
— Oliver Goldsmith
If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Hope, like the gleaming taper
— Oliver Goldsmith
What is genius or courage without a heart?
— Oliver Goldsmith
They liked the book better the more it made them cry.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.
— Oliver Goldsmith
We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.
— Joan Oliver Goldsmith
The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
— Oliver Goldsmith
But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
— Oliver Goldsmith
For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The wretch condemn'd with life to part,Still, still on hope relies;
And every pang that rends the heart
Bids expectation rise. — Oliver Goldsmith
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.
— Oliver Goldsmith
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
— Oliver Goldsmith
A reserved lover, it is said, always makes a suspicious husband.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Prudery is ignorance.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The beast retires to it's shelter, and the bird flies to it's nest; but the helpless man can only find refuge in his fellow creature.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Alas! the joys that fortune bringsAre trifling, and decay,
And those who prize the trifling things,
More trifling still than they. — Oliver Goldsmith
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
— Oliver Goldsmith
Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.
— Oliver Goldsmith
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.
— Oliver Goldsmith
How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
— Oliver Goldsmith
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
— Oliver Goldsmith
And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
— Oliver Goldsmith
All is not gold that glitters,Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters — Oliver Goldsmith
There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
— Oliver Goldsmith
In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
— Oliver Goldsmith
When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first best country ever is at home. — Oliver Goldsmith
Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.
— Oliver Goldsmith
A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
— Oliver Goldsmith
As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.
— Oliver Goldsmith
And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?
— Oliver Goldsmith
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
— Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
— Oliver Goldsmith
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
— Oliver Goldsmith
All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
— Oliver Goldsmith
To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The very pink of perfection.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
— Oliver Goldsmith
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
— Oliver Goldsmith
A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.
— Oliver Goldsmith
When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.
— Oliver Goldsmith
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.
— Oliver Goldsmith
All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The first blow is half the battle.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
— Oliver Goldsmith
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Error is ever talkative.
— Oliver Goldsmith
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
— Oliver Goldsmith
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
— Oliver Goldsmith
People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after
— Oliver Goldsmith
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.
— Oliver Goldsmith
If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
— Oliver Goldsmith
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
— Oliver Goldsmith
They say women and music should never be dated.
— Oliver Goldsmith
You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on ...
— Oliver Goldsmith
Elegy of the Death of a Mad Dog The dog, to gain some praivate ends, Went mad and bit the man.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
— Oliver Goldsmith