Ethics Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

— Oliver Goldsmith

How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.

— Oliver Goldsmith

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

— Oliver Goldsmith

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

— Oliver Goldsmith

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations…

— Oliver Goldsmith

[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

— Oliver Goldsmith