Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith

Love, Everything, Friends

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.
Oliver Goldsmith

Future, Great, Alone

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver Goldsmith

Husband, Wife, Wants

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

Life, Lips, Preach

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!
Oliver Goldsmith

Beauty, Happiness, Nature

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship, Two, Pity

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

Strength, Justice, Enough

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith

True, Different, Country

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith

Champion, Defend, Absurdity

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Oliver Goldsmith

Life, Bad, Matter

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
Oliver Goldsmith

Sometimes, Played

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith

Success, Time, Getting

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?
Oliver Goldsmith

Men, Art, Woman

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith

Men, Wealth, Decay

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith

Home, Country, Others

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith

Smile, End, May

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith

Long, Commerce, Honour

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith

Good, Learning, Brain

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.
Oliver Goldsmith

Knowledge, Greatest, Become

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
Oliver Goldsmith

Art, Joke, Unless

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Oliver Goldsmith

Live, Poet, Employment

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

Love, Friendship, Between

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith

Hope, Hook, Bait

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith

Wedding, Wife, Her

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: November 10, 1730

Died: April 4, 1774

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