Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
1728–1774 Ireland
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and physician.
- Ireland
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- Novelists
- Playwrights
- Poets
Also known as: Goldsmith, Oliver
203 quotes
These little things are great to little man.
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;
The sports of children satisfy the child.
We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence.
The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm,
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Wisdom makes but a slow defence against trouble, though at last a sure one.
At this every lady drew up her mouth as if going to pronounce the letter P.
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
Let us draw upon Content for the deficiencies of fortune.
Thou best-humour'd man with the worst-humour'd muse.
His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oliver Goldsmith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.