Quotes By Oliver Goldsmith

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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?

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.