Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHHonour sinks where commerce long prevails.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
-
-
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
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.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH -
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH