Oliver Goldsmith

(349 votes)   The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(340 votes)   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
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(257 votes)   I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(250 votes)   If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(216 votes)   Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(176 votes)   The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(176 votes)   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
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(163 votes)   Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

Oliver Goldsmith

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(159 votes)   The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(148 votes)   There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(140 votes)   Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(139 votes)   Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(137 votes)   For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(133 votes)   The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(129 votes)   Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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