Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pride, Charity, Faults

  Oliver Goldsmith (1867). “The Poetical Works”, p.58

• Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Pride, Men

  The Deserted Village l. 51 (1770)

• Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Eye, Pride, Lord

  'The Traveller' (1764) l. 327

• As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
  One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show;
  But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
  They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pride, Thinking, House

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.592

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