Oliver Goldsmith Quotes (212 Quotes)

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.

The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.

I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Vain, very vain is my search to find that happiness which only centers in the mind.

A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

The life of man is a journey a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.