Oliver Goldsmith Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Tenderness is a virtue.”

“The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.”

“Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.”

“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.”

“There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.”

“The jests of the rich are ever successful.”

“Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.”

“Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.”

“On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.”

“I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.”