Oliver Goldsmith Quotes on Society
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They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
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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 destroyed, can never be supplied.
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Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round.
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And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.