Oliver Goldsmith World Quotations

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.