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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes and Quotations
 Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. - Oliver Goldsmith | Conscience Quotes  Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long. - Oliver Goldsmith | Life Quotes Philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an errant jade on a journey. - Oliver Goldsmith | Philosophy Quotes I'll fares the land, to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. - Oliver Goldsmith | Wealth Quotes A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. - Oliver Goldsmith | Women Quotes If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. - Oliver Goldsmith | Words and Language Quotes Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. - Oliver Goldsmith | Forgiveness Quotes At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. - Oliver Goldsmith | Prayer Quotes He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping. - Oliver Goldsmith | Self-Acceptance Quotes Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, emits a lighter ray. - Oliver Goldsmith | Hope Quotes People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. - Oliver Goldsmith | Role Models Quotes The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. - Oliver Goldsmith | Realistic Expectations Quotes Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. - Oliver Goldsmith | Luck Quotes Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. - Oliver Goldsmith | Work Quotes Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. - Oliver Goldsmith | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again. - Oliver Goldsmith | Courtesy Quotes Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. - Oliver Goldsmith | Curiosity Quotes To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber. - Oliver Goldsmith | Gentleman Quotes People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. - Oliver Goldsmith | Improvement Quotes The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. - Oliver Goldsmith | Law Quotes Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. - Oliver Goldsmith | Law Quotes And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all it knew. - Oliver Goldsmith | Learning Quotes Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long. - Oliver Goldsmith | Man Quotes The very pink of perfection. - Oliver Goldsmith | Perfection Quotes The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. - Oliver Goldsmith | Poison Quotes At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. - Oliver Goldsmith | Prayer Quotes But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. - Oliver Goldsmith | Preaching Quotes Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. - Oliver Goldsmith | Question Quotes He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. - Oliver Goldsmith | Sympathy Quotes Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long. - Oliver Goldsmith | Want Quotes I'll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade - A breath can make them, as a breath has made - But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied. - Oliver Goldsmith | Wealth Quotes 
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