Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Decay, Wealth

  The Deserted Village l. 51 (1770)

• And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Ignorance, Riches, Wealth

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 51

• Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Land, Decay

  1770 The Deserted Village, l.51-6.

• 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)

• Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Failure, Long, Contentment

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.844

• The jests of the rich are ever successful.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Successful, Riches, Wealth

  Oliver Goldsmith (1809). “The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale”, p.39

• But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train
  Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain;
  Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose,
  Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Land, Rose, Wealth

  Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1851). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected”, p.66

• Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Decay, Wealth

• And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sleep, Names, Shade

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.856

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