523 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.

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.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.