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

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

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

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Oliver Goldsmith

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith

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!
Oliver Goldsmith

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

Tenderness is a virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

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

The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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

They say women and music should never be dated.
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

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

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
Oliver Goldsmith