Quotes By Oliver Goldsmith

They say women and music should never be dated.

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

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?

Tenderness is a virtue.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

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

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

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

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

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

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

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

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

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

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.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

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

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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!