Author Profile
Oliver Goldsmith
1730 – 1774 • Irish • Poet
40
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 40 quotesThere are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.— Oliver Goldsmith
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.— Oliver Goldsmith
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.— Oliver Goldsmith
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.— Oliver Goldsmith
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.— Oliver Goldsmith
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.— Oliver Goldsmith
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?— Oliver Goldsmith