Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

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Oliver Goldsmith

Profession : Poet

Birth : November 10, 1730

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

They say women and music should never be dated.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Oliver Goldsmith

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Oliver Goldsmith

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Oliver Goldsmith

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Oliver Goldsmith

Tenderness is a virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Oliver Goldsmith

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Oliver Goldsmith

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith