Oliver Goldsmith Zitate auf Englisch

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Oliver Goldsmith

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Oliver Goldsmith

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Oliver Goldsmith

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Oliver Goldsmith

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Oliver Goldsmith

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Oliver Goldsmith

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

Tenderness is a virtue.

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

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Oliver Goldsmith

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Oliver Goldsmith

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Oliver Goldsmith

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Oliver Goldsmith

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Oliver Goldsmith

They say women and music should never be dated.

Oliver Goldsmith

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

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

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