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Oliver Goldsmith quotes (33)

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in anothers keeping.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Achievement

I chose my wife as she did her wedding gown not for a fine glossy surface but such qualities as would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Marriage

On the stage he was natural simple affecting; T was only that when he was off he was acting.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Acquaintance

Don't let us make imaginary evils when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Evil

I love everything thats old: old friends old times old manners old books old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Age

Ask me no questions and I ll tell you no fibs.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Lever

If frugality were established in the state if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life there might be fewer wants and even fewer pleasures but infinitely more happiness.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Unsorted

Silence gives consent.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Sick

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Zeal

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Friendship

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Business

Good people all with one accord Lament for Madam Blaize Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Praise

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Speak

Handsome is that handsome does.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Beauty

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have but much oftener of that which we lack.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Times

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view Are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Prospects

The very pink of perfection.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Perfection

And in that town a dog was found As many dogs there be Both mongrel puppy whelp and hound And curs of low degree.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Dog

To the last moment of his breath On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Expectation

Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Conscience

Like the bee we should make our industry our amusement.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Industry

For just experience tells in every soil That those that think must govern those that toil.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Thief

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Modesty

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Factory

Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Law

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Example

How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Cause

Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Life

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Fortune

There is no arguing with him for if his pistol misses fire he knockes you down with the butt end of it.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Gun

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Copy

Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade A breath can make them as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry their countrys pride When once destroyd can never be supplied.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Prosperity

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.
Oliver Goldsmith   Category: Conduct