523 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same, – fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

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

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found’st me poor at first, and keep’st me so.

Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, my dear, twenty years hence, when your beauty begins to want repairs.

Embosom’d in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

We are not to judge the feelings of others by what we might feel in their place.

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write, – whether avarice or fame, – the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

And fools who came to scoff remain’d to pray.