Oliver Goldsmith

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The first blow is half the battle.

— Oliver Goldsmith

In all the silent manliness of grief.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Tenderness is a virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The sports of children satisfy the child.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Hope, like the gleaming taper

— Oliver Goldsmith

And learn the luxury of doing good.

— Oliver Goldsmith

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely

— Oliver Goldsmith

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

— Oliver Goldsmith

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“The country blooms—a garden, and a grave.”

— Oliver Goldsmith

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

— 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

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

— Oliver Goldsmith

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

— Oliver Goldsmith

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where…

— Oliver Goldsmith

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue,…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and…

— Oliver Goldsmith

A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a…

— Oliver Goldsmith

What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels…

— Oliver Goldsmith

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee…

— Oliver Goldsmith

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in…

— 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

Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

— Oliver Goldsmith

How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

— Oliver Goldsmith

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

— Oliver Goldsmith

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

— Oliver Goldsmith