Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.

They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

We are the boys
That fear no noise
Where the thundering cannons roar.

The first blow is half the battle.

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

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

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

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

The very pink of perfection.

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

In all the silent manliness of grief.