Words matter. These are the best Oliver Goldsmith Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
They say women and music should never be dated.
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
