523 Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

I...chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

When lovely woman stoops to folly / And finds too late that men betray, / What charm can soothe her melancholy, / What art can wash her guilt away.

The only art her guilt to cover, / To hide her shame from every eye, / To give repentance to her lover, / And wring his bosom, is — to die.

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

When lovely woman stoops to folly / And finds too late that men betray, / What charm can soothe her melancholy, / What art can wash her guilt away?

Our greatest glory consists, not in falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

If frugality were established in the state, if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.