Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Silence gives consent.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, War, Giving

  Oliver Goldsmith (1792). “The Good Natured Man: A Comedy”, p.28

• It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Taken, Giving, Advice

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.202

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving, Brain, Intelligence

  'She Stoops to Conquer' (1773) act 1, sc. 1, song

• Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Giving, Heaven

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.159

• There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Travel, Thinking

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.86

• If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving, Answers, Ask Me

• They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Ambition, Giving, Please

  Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Rose, Thomas Percy, Thomas Campbell (1821). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B..”, p.38

• Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving Up, Add, Impudence

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world”, p.467

• Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving Up, Generosity, Understanding

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.286

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