Quotes By Oliver Goldsmith

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.

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

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

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

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.