Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHGirls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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