100 Quotations by Oliver Goldsmith
- 1. A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of ...
- 2. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to c ...
- 3. A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
- 4. A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at ho ...
- 5. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
- 6. As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must nece ...
- 7. Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra ...
- 8. But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
- 9. Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
- 10. Crime generally punishes itself.
- 11. Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
- 12. Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
- 13. Fear guides more than gratitude.
- 14. For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can ...
- 15. Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
- 16. Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants a ...
- 17. Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
- 18. Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the giver's bosom.
- 19. He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them ba ...
- 20. He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
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