Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. – Oliver Goldsmith

Other quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Aristocracy
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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? – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Seduction
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Drugs
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Other Quotes from
Friendship
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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker. – Jean de la Bruyere

Category:
Friendship

I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Friendship

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. – Arthur Ashe

Category:
Friendship

One of the great things personally coming to Hawaii is my friendship of Jim Nicholson. – Dan Fouts

Category:
Friendship

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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. – Herbert Spencer

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Freedom

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Category:
Life

I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds – that hed tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film. – Toby Jones

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famous

If we dont get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: Its time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties. – Harvey Weinstein

Category:
Time