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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living

— Oliver Goldsmith

Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

— Oliver Goldsmith

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

— Oliver Goldsmith

In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs-and God has given my share- I still had hopes…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

— Oliver Goldsmith

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“The beast retires to its shelter, and the bird flies to its nest; but the helpless man can only find refuge in…

— Oliver Goldsmith