Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

#Honor

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

#Husbands, #Wives

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

#Jokes

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

#Modesty

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

#People

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

#Perseverance

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the...

#Plants

Silence is become his mother tongue.

#Silence

Tenderness is a virtue.

#Tenderness

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

#Universe

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing

#Zeal

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

#Self Improvement