Quotes By Oliver Goldsmith

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

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

They say women and music should never be dated.

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.

Tenderness is a virtue.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

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

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.