Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
1728–1774 Ireland
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and physician.
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Also known as: Goldsmith, Oliver
203 quotes
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails,
And honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oliver Goldsmith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.