Quotes By Oliver Goldsmith

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.