Best Oliver Goldsmith Sayings
- The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself. Audience
- The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter. Called
- The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. Laugh
- Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most… Abilities
- It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. Inspirational
- Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom. Bosom
- Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind. Centers
- If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be… Established
- [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 means… Abyss
- The very pink of perfection. Funny
- Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face. Boding
- A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. All
- We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed… Adventure
- Fear guides more than gratitude. Fear
- Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. Breast
- Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature. Good
- A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. Absurdity
- Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain. Auburn
- 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… Arise
- Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise. Accord
- So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. Bind
- Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. Anxieties
- To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. All
- A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes. Clad
- And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy. Art
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