Oliver Goldsmith Giving Quotations

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

Silence gives consent.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.