Country Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most…

— Oliver Goldsmith

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it…

— Oliver Goldsmith

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am…

— Oliver Goldsmith

It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may…

— Oliver Goldsmith

I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not…

— Oliver Goldsmith

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided…

— Oliver Goldsmith

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but…

— Oliver Goldsmith