Oliver Goldsmith
50 quotations
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so.
But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
Fear guides more than gratitude.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
In all the silent manliness of grief.
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
Who can direct when all pretend to know?
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.