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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  • People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
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  • People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
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  • Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
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  • Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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  • Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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  • 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!
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  • She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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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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  • Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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  • Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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  • Tenderness is a virtue.
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  • The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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  • The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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  • The best way to please one half of the world is not to mind, what the other half says.
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  • The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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  • The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
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  • The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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  • The first blow is half the battle.
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  • The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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  • The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.
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