Oliver Goldsmith

Error is always talkative.

Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Handsome is that handsome does.

Oliver Goldsmith

His best companions, innocence and health; and his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Oliver Goldsmith

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith

I always get the better when I argue alone.

Oliver Goldsmith

I can’t say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Oliver Goldsmith

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Oliver Goldsmith