Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.

A flattering painter, who made it his care
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.

Certainly, in two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can,
An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

And what is friendship but a name,
A charm that lulls to sleep,
A shade that follows wealth or fame,
And leaves the wretch to weep?

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genus a better discerning.

I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.

Even children followed with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.

The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.