Famous Quotes / Oliver Goldsmith
100 Quotations by Oliver Goldsmith
- 61. Tenderness is a virtue.
- 62. The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
- 63. The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
- 64. The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
- 65. The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
- 66. The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
- 67. The first blow is half the battle.
- 68. The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adver ...
- 69. The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
- 70. The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with succes ...
- 71. The jests of the rich are ever successful.
- 72. The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommod ...
- 73. The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
- 74. The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
- 75. The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
- 76. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
- 77. There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without er ...
- 78. There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of ...
- 79. There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fo ...
- 80. Those that think must govern those that toil.