Quotes from Oliver Goldsmith

Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.

In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take.

The miscellaneous poetry of this age is nothing like the last; it is very poor.

The country blooms—a garden, and a grave.

There are a hundred faults in this Thing and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties.

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

Thus the people, who could not bear the very name of king, readily submitted to a magistrate possessed of much greater power; so much do the names of things mislead us, and so little is any form of government irksome to the people, when it coincides with their prejudices.

Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find.

It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. In the first case we cook the dish to our own appetite; in the latter nature cooks it for us.