“The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.”
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Famous Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Source: The works ...
“The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings
“The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.”
Source: The Citizen of the World Or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friend in the East
Source: Poetical works
“A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield
“Measures, not men, have always been my mark.”
Source: The good natur'd man: a comedy, etc
“Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
“Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces
“The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.”
Source: the traveller and the deserted village
“Crimes generally punish themselves.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield
“This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
“O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
“Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!”
“Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.”
Source: A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature
“Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.”
Source: Works: With a Life and Notes
“Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield
“For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces
“Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres
Source: The Poetical works
“Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!”
Source: Preface to Dr. Brooke's natural history. Introduction to a new History of the world. Preface to the Roman history. Preface to the History of England. Preface to An history of the earth. Preface to the Beauties of English poetry. Preface to a collection of poems for young ladies, devotional, moral, and entertaining. Dr. Aikin's Critical dissertation on the poetry of Dr. Goldsmith. Poems. Dramatic : The good-natur'd man. She stoops to conquer
“We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.”
“A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.”
Source: A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature
“If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham
“But winter lingering chills the lap of May.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield
Source: A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature
“To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield ... Nach Walter Scott's verbessertem Texte durchgängig accentuirt. Nebst ... Noten und einem vollständigen Wörterbuche ... Bearbeitet von Christian Heinrich Plessner ... Fünfte Auflage
“We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale
Source: Citizen of the World
“A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.”
“The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale ...
“Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.”
“The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
“The jests of the rich are ever successful.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield
“If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
“That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.”