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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes


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

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

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

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

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!

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Tenderness is a virtue.

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

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

They say women and music should never be dated.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.