Oliver Goldsmith

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

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

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Oliver Goldsmith

A reserved lover, it is said, always makes a suspicious husband.

Oliver Goldsmith

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

Oliver Goldsmith

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

Oliver Goldsmith

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

Oliver Goldsmith

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

Oliver Goldsmith

All is not gold that glitters, pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters.

Oliver Goldsmith