Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

- Oliver Goldsmith

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Tenderness is a virtue.

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

They say women and music should never be dated.

- Oliver Goldsmith

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

- Oliver Goldsmith

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

- Oliver Goldsmith

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

- Oliver Goldsmith

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

- Oliver Goldsmith