Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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 love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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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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