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

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Topics: Speech Quotes

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.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly...

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly...

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest...

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

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...

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

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

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive...

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it...

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out...

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out...

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.