Friendship Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.

— Oliver Goldsmith

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on…

— 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

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys encrease, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide…

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on… He who, without friends to encourage…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When…

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with…

— Oliver Goldsmith

O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for…

— Oliver Goldsmith