Oliver Goldsmith Good Quotations

That's a good girl. I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go help your mother to make the gooseberry-pie.

Good people all, of every sort, / Give ear unto my song; / And if you do find it wondrous short, / It cannot hold you long.

The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

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