523 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

What we place most hopes upon, generally proves most fatal.

A night-cap deck’d his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind’s roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

At this he laughed, and so did we: the jests of the rich are ever successful.

Thus, my children, after men have travelled through a few stages in vice, shame forsakes them, and returns back to wait upon the few virtues they have still remaining.

I fretted myself about the mistakes of government, like other people; but finding myself every day grow more angry, and the government growing no better, I left it to mend itself.

The pregnant quarry teem’d with human form.

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

A man who leaves home lo mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by a blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.