Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

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

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  • I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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  • I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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  • I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
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  • I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
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  • I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
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  • If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
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  • Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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  • In all the silent manliness of grief.
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  • It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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  • Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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  • Learn the luxury of doing good.
    The Traveller
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  • 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.
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  • 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 likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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  • Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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  • Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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  • Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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  • No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
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  • Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
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  • Our greatest glory consists not in never failing but in rising every time we fall.
    The Citizen of the World (1762) - door Lien Chi Altangi (Oliver Goldsmith)
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  • Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
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