Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Gratitude

Quotes about: Gratitude

• Fear guides more than gratitude.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gratitude, Fear, Guides

• Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gratitude, Thinking, Debt

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”

• Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gratitude, Love Is, Men

  Oliver Goldsmith (1852). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.330

• Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gratitude, Lying, Men

  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.258

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