Quotes by Goldsmith, Oliver

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am >>

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to le >>

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. >>

Quotations about Guests

A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly. >>

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, >>

Fish and guests smell at three days old. >>

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

Goldsmith, Oliver