Guess quote

Oliver Goldsmith [1730-1774] Irish

Rank: 101
Poet, Novelist

Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer.

Friendship, Beauty, Future, Happiness, Home, Hope, Humor, Learning, Life, Love, Marriage, Nature, Saint Patrick's Day, Smile, Strength, Success, Time, Travel, Wedding

Quote	Tags	Rank
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.	Love, Saint Patrick's Day	101
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.	Success, Time	102
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.	Hope	103
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.	Wedding	104
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.		105
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.		106
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.	Home, Travel	107
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!	Beauty, Happiness, Nature	108
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.	Friendship	109
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.	Marriage	110
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?		111
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.		112
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.	Smile	113
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.		114
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.		115
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.	Life	116
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.	Humor	117
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.		118
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.		119
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.	Friendship	120
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.		121
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.	Strength	122
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.	Future	123
The jests of the rich are ever successful.		124
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.		125
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.	Learning	126
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.		201
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.		202
They say women and music should never be dated.		203
Tenderness is a virtue.		204
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.		205
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.		206
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.		207
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.		208
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.		209
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.		210
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.		211
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.		212
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.		213
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.		214

The script ran 0.005 seconds.