100 Quotations by Oliver Goldsmith
- 21. Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

- 22. Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

- 23. Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
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- 24. I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, ...

- 25. I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

- 26. I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names ...

- 27. I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I beli ...

- 28. I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as ...

- 29. If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather t ...

- 30. If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

- 31. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey,
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- 32. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

- 33. In all the silent manliness of grief.

- 34. It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

- 35. It's a damned long, boggy, dirty, dangerous way.

- 36. Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

- 37. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

- 38. Learn the luxury of doing good.

- 39. Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stout ...

- 40. Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till ...

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