7 Oliver Goldsmith Quotes on Character

Oliver Goldsmith quotes on character

2. Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

31. Handsome is that handsome does.

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45. He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence.

49. Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

60. Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.

86. Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

89. He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.