523 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

We are the boys / That fear no noise / Where the thundering cannons roar.

Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, / That foundst me poor at first, and keepst me so.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.

With other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.

To begin with Ireland, the most western part of the continent, the natives are peculiarly remarkable for their gaiety and levity of their disposition ; the English, transplanted there, in time lose their serious melancholy air, and become gay and tho

Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, / With blossomed furze unprofitably gay.