Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHIf you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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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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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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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