Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Topics: Friendship Quotes

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...

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...

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

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...

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

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

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm...

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm...

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of...

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of...

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up...

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up...

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

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

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

They say women and music should never be dated.

They say women and music should never be dated.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

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.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

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...

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a...

Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a...

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the...

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the...