O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of – disappointment.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

— Oliver Goldsmith

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind’s roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

— Oliver Goldsmith

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas’d he could whistle them back.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

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A night-cap deck’d his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

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A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

— Oliver Goldsmith

In arguing too, the parson own’d his skill, For e’en though vanquish’d he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz’d the gazing rustics rang’d around; And still they gaz’d, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.

— Oliver Goldsmith

And learn the luxury of doing good.

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The watch-dog’s voice that bay’d the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

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Embosom’d in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Who mix’d reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It ’s like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The whitewash’d wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish’d clock that click’d behind the door; The chest, contriv’d a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

— Oliver Goldsmith
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