Quotes About Oliver Goldsmith

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

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

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

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

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me, a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

Nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty.

His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

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

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