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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHOn the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHCeremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHA 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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHPity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHLet schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHSurely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHAs 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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHGirls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHWhere wealth accumulates, men decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHonour sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHFriendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHI love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHRomance 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!
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThere are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH