Oliver Goldsmith

Silence gives consent.

Oliver Goldsmith

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Oliver Goldsmith

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

Oliver Goldsmith

Tenderness is a virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Oliver Goldsmith

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Oliver Goldsmith

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

Oliver Goldsmith

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

Oliver Goldsmith

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

Oliver Goldsmith

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

Oliver Goldsmith