523 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,Our own felicity we make or find.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.