Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith with faults

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

Irish writer and poet

Lived from: 1728 - 1774

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 10 november 1728 Died: 4 april 1774

  • Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
  • Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
  • Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
  • Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
  • Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
  • Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
  • People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
  • There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
  • I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
  • Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
  • Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
  • Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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  • Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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  • There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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