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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

«The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
«The weakest soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Soul | Keywords: leans, weakest
«Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: amusement, bee, industry
«To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death bids expectation rise»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Expectation | Keywords: bids, pang, preceding, relies
«Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: defiance, lords, pass by, port
«And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: remained, scoff, scoffs
«The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: adulation, ambitious, flattery, followed
«Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
«She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: described, Her husband, ladies, occupation, reclaim, reclaimed, reclaiming, reclaims, shafting, shafts, trains
«And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: cur, curs, hound, hounded, mongrel, to the lowest degree, whelp
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