523 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.

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

What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion And that which we do with the dead, Is the name of the honestest man in the nation: What more of a man can be said?

Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.