goldsmith Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about goldsmith.
“Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.”
- Oliver Goldsmith
“The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.”
- Olivia Goldsmith
“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”
- Oliver Goldsmith
“Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.”
- Oliver Goldsmith
“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.”
- Oliver Goldsmith
“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.”
- 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
“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”
- Oliver Goldsmith
“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.”
- 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