Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can,An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,Adorns and cheers our way;And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,And news much older than their ale went round.
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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.
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The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,For talking age and whispering lovers made.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still;While words of learned length, and thundering soundAmazed the gazing rustics ranged around;And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,That one small head could carry all he knew.
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It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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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.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.