Oliver Goldsmith Short Quotes

25 Sourced Quotes

View all Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms.

Oliver Goldsmith
Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

Oliver Goldsmith
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.

Oliver Goldsmith
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.

Oliver Goldsmith
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

Oliver Goldsmith
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith
His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.

Oliver Goldsmith
The best-humour'd man, with the worst-humour'd Muse.

Oliver Goldsmith
By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.

Oliver Goldsmith
Let us draw upon Content for the deficiencies of fortune.

Oliver Goldsmith
They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

Oliver Goldsmith
The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.

Oliver Goldsmith
Taught by that Power that pities me,
I learn to pity them.

Oliver Goldsmith
A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

Oliver Goldsmith
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.

Oliver Goldsmith
To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?

Oliver Goldsmith
The king himself has followed her
When she has walk'd before.

Oliver Goldsmith
How wide the limits stand
Between a splendid and a happy land.

Oliver Goldsmith
Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.

Oliver Goldsmith
We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.

Oliver Goldsmith
The dog, to gain some private ends,
Went mad, and bit the man.

Oliver Goldsmith
To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

Oliver Goldsmith
The doctor found, when she was dead,—
Her last disorder mortal.

Oliver Goldsmith
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

Oliver Goldsmith
Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

Oliver Goldsmith
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.

Oliver Goldsmith
Your worship must not tell the story of Ould Grouse in the gun-room.

Oliver Goldsmith
I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

Oliver Goldsmith
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

Oliver Goldsmith
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

Oliver Goldsmith