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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes: 10

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

  • Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  • I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  • Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

    The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
  • Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

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

  • Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

    She Stoops to Conquer
  • Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

  • I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

    The Vicar of Wakefield
  • Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.