523 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative

Even children followed with endearing wile,/ And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.

Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, / More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. / His house was known to all the vagrant train, / He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.

Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?

The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after

The naked every day he clad, / When he put on his clothes.