Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Tenderness is a virtue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Virtue, Tenderness

  "The Good-Natur'd Man". Play by Oliver Goldsmith, 1768.

• Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Modesty, Virtue, Breasts

  Oliver Goldsmith (1801). “The Beauties of Goldsmith”, p.121

• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Weed, Marijuana, Excellence

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

• 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

• The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The Citizen of the World Or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friend in the East”, p.33

• As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Exercise, Boys, Lessons

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.171

• The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Powerful, Army, Soul

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “Miscellaneous works”, p.189

• Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Want, Virtue, Prudence

  Oliver Goldsmith (1801). “The Beauties of Goldsmith”, p.158

• We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Speak, Virtue

• That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Virtue, Guarded, Sentinels

  'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 5

• She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Husband, Character

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a new life of the author”, p.180

• 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

• While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hands, Selfishness, Virtue

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