Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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And learn the luxury of doing good.
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Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.
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What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.
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The man recovered of the bite,The dog it was that died.
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A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack,For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt;It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
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Good people all, with one acord,Lament for Madame Blaize,Who never wanted a good word —From those who spoke her praise.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roarBut bind him to his native mountains more.