Oliver Goldsmith Quotes & Quotations

Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

» Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

» Crime generally punishes itself.

» Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

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

» I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

» The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

» If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

» There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

» I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

» 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.

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