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? – Oliver Goldsmith
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. – Oliver Goldsmith
People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after. – Oliver Goldsmith
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. – Oliver Goldsmith
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. – Oliver Goldsmith
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. – Oliver Goldsmith
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. – Oliver Goldsmith
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crushd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. – Oliver Goldsmith
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. – Oliver Goldsmith
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith
Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry. – Oliver Goldsmith
Tenderness is a virtue. – Oliver Goldsmith
We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown. – Oliver Goldsmith
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so. – Oliver Goldsmith
I love everything thats old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. – Oliver Goldsmith
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. – Oliver Goldsmith
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. – 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
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. – 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
