Oliver Goldsmith quotes - page 2

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. (Oliver Goldsmith)
They please, are pleas'd they give to get esteem, Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
But winter lingering chills the lap of May. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The very pink of perfection. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Measures, not men, have always been my mark. (Oliver Goldsmith)
A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night, a stocking all the day. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
And learn the luxury of doing good. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - Image
Occupation: Anglo-Irish Writer
Born: November 10, 1728
Died: April 4, 1774
Quotes count: 219
Wikipedia: Oliver Goldsmith

Related authors

Thomas Gray - thumbnail
Thomas Gray  91 
English Poet
Richard Brinsley Sheridan - thumbnail
Richard Brinsley Sheridan  100 
Irish-British Politician
Henry Fielding - thumbnail
Henry Fielding  108 
English Novelist
Samuel Johnson - thumbnail
Samuel Johnson  771 
English Writer
Oscar Wilde - thumbnail
Oscar Wilde  1197 
Irish Poet
Jonathan Swift - thumbnail
Jonathan Swift  264 
Anglo-Irish Writer
William Cowper - thumbnail
William Cowper  242 
English Poet
James Boswell - thumbnail
James Boswell  34 
British Lawyer
William Wordsworth - thumbnail
William Wordsworth  398 
English Poet
Samuel Richardson - thumbnail
Samuel Richardson  95 
English Writer