Source: Essays, poems and plays
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Famous Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
“Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.”
“Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield: Together with the Poems ...
Source: Essays
Source: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world
“Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.”
Source: The Beauties of Goldsmith
“In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.”
Source: The works ...
Source: The citizen of the world
“Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.”
Source: Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone
“The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
“If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.”
“One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history
“Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”
Source: The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: In One Volume. With the Portrait of the Author..
“Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.”
Source: She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy ...
Source: Life. Commendatory verses. Poems. Plays. Letters. Memorandums of agreement between Dr. Goldsmith and Thomas Davies, bookseller
“The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.”
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces
“All the bloomy flush of life is fled.”
Source: Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod
“The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.”
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield
“The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.”
Source: The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume
Source: She Stoops to Conquer
“Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.”
Source: A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature
Source: The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher: Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country
“True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc
“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.”
Source: A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature
Source: Poems, Plays and Essays
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume
Source: Essays, poems and plays
“As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.”
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller
“And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.”
Source: The Good Natured Man: A Comedy
“The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.”
“Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.”
“Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.”
Source: Life. Commendatory verses. Poems. Plays. Letters. Memorandums of agreement between Dr. Goldsmith and Thomas Davies, bookseller