Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Most popular Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
![Fortitude is victory. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/98/7998A-fortitude-is-victory-oliver-goldsmith.png)
Fortitude is victory.
![Silence gives consent. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/92/39792A-silence-gives-consent-oliver-goldsmith.png)
Silence gives consent.
![A door must be shut or open. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/17/9717A-a-door-must-be-shut-or-open-oliver-goldsmith.png)
A door must be shut or open.
![O Memory! Thou fond deceiver. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/89/29189A-o-memory-thou-fond-deceiver-oliver-goldsmith.png)
O Memory! Thou fond deceiver.
![Ask no questions and hear no lies. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/55/5855A-ask-no-questions-and-hear-no-lies-oliver-goldsmith.png)
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
![In all the silent manliness of grief. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/82/32282A-in-all-the-silent-manliness-of-grief-oliver-goldsmith.png)
In all the silent manliness of grief.
![His greatest riches—ignorance of wealth. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/80/53580A-his-greatest-riches-ignorance-of-wealth-oliver-goldsmith.png)
His greatest riches—ignorance of wealth.
![Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/82/482A-ask-me-no-questions-and-ill-tell-you-no-fibs-oliver-goldsmith.png)
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
![Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/75/8475A-laws-grind-the-poor-and-rich-men-rule-law-oliver-goldsmith.png)
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
![You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/32/932A-you-can-preach-a-better-sermon-with-your-life-than-oliver-goldsmith.png)
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
![The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/65/41765A-the-virtue-which-requires-to-be-ever-guarded-is-scarce-oliver-goldsmith.png)
The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
![People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/77/2177A-people-seldom-improve-when-they-have-no-model-but-themselves-oliver-goldsmith.png)
People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after.
![People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/48/30448A-people-seldom-improve-when-they-have-no-other-model-but-oliver-goldsmith.png)
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
![Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/17/41217A-wisdom-makes-but-a-slow-defense-against-trouble-though-at-oliver-goldsmith.png)
Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one.
![Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/51/2551A-modesty-seldom-resides-in-a-breast-that-is-not-enriched-oliver-goldsmith.png)
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues
![The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/29/40029A-the-true-use-of-speech-is-not-so-much-express-oliver-goldsmith.png)
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
![Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/24/51224A-our-greatest-glory-consists-not-in-never-failing-but-rising-oliver-goldsmith.png)
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
![But where to find that happiest spot below, who can direct, when all pretend to know? - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/43/3643A-but-where-to-find-that-happiest-spot-below-who-can-oliver-goldsmith.png)
But where to find that happiest spot below, who can direct, when all pretend to know?
![I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/61/10361A-i-love-everything-thats-old-old-friends-old-times-old-oliver-goldsmith.png)
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
![He who seeks for applause only from without, has all his happiness in another's keeping. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/00/39400A-he-who-seeks-for-applause-only-from-without-has-all-oliver-goldsmith.png)
He who seeks for applause only from without, has all his happiness in another's keeping.
![On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/10/22210A-on-the-stage-he-was-natural-simple-affecting-twas-only-oliver-goldsmith.png)
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
![An emperor in his night-cap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/83/8783A-an-emperor-in-his-night-cap-would-not-meet-with-oliver-goldsmith.png)
An emperor in his night-cap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
![We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to be so ourselves. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/42/3642A-we-take-greater-pains-to-persuade-others-that-we-are-oliver-goldsmith.png)
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to be so ourselves.
![All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, appreciated a little. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/02/13302A-all-that-a-husband-or-wife-really-wants-is-be-oliver-goldsmith.png)
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, appreciated a little.
![The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/14/33614A-the-ingratitude-of-the-world-can-never-deprive-us-conscious-oliver-goldsmith.png)
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
![There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/84/30484A-there-are-some-faults-so-nearly-allied-excellence-that-we-oliver-goldsmith.png)
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
![The metaphor is a shorter simile, or rather a kind of magical coat, by which the same idea assumes a thousand different appearances. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/20/35820A-the-metaphor-is-a-shorter-simile-or-rather-kind-magical-oliver-goldsmith.png)
The metaphor is a shorter simile, or rather a kind of magical coat, by which the same idea assumes a thousand different appearances.
![It is a species of painting with words, in which the figures are happily conceived, ingeniously arranged, affectingly expressed, and recommended with all the warmth and harmony of coloring. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/90/37490A-it-is-a-species-of-painting-with-words-which-figures-oliver-goldsmith.png)
It is a species of painting with words, in which the figures are happily conceived, ingeniously arranged, affectingly expressed, and recommended with all the warmth and harmony of coloring.
![Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.](/img/q/79/20379A-every-acknowledgment-of-gratitude-is-a-circumstance-humiliation-some-are-oliver-goldsmith.png)
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.