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

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Topics: Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Tenderness is a virtue.

Tenderness is a virtue.

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

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

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and...

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and...

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

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

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling...

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling...

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if...

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if...

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

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

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice,...

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice,...

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

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

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to...

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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

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

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

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

A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman, a married man...

A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman, a married man...

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wifes husband.

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wifes husband.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent...

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent...