Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Reputation

Quotes about: Reputation

• To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Running, Average, Risk

• Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Flesh, Reputation

  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.211

• I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Men, Cities

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The citizen of the world”, p.217

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