Quotes by Goldsmith, Oliver

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad c >>

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observi >>

I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy >>

Quotations about Ridicule

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that >>

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. >>

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no n >>

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Goldsmith, Oliver