523 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Life at the greatest and best is but a forward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.