Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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