Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush’d or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

Oliver Goldsmith

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Oliver Goldsmith

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can’t abide to disappoint myself.

Oliver Goldsmith

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Oliver Goldsmith

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Oliver Goldsmith

Crime generally punishes itself.

Oliver Goldsmith