523 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

Little things are great to little men.