The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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