Olivia Goldsmith quote: "Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to get terms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists."

As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher -admittedly a daunting task - it is twice as ...
OLIVIA GOLDSMITH

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity
OLIVIA GOLDSMITH

Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, bu...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have fo...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green t...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I wan...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there i...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society....
ZAC GOLDSMITH

Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it ...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where ch...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' t...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are un...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizar...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.
ZAC GOLDSMITH

Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Eve...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - wh...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environment...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always b...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainab...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
ZAC GOLDSMITH

Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to h...
SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH

Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the f...
SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stout...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Gadgets - our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were...
SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
BARBARA GOLDSMITH

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of wha...
BARBARA GOLDSMITH

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His h...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant min...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I re...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommod...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

All is not gold that glitters,
Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants a...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without era...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greate...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fo...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at ho...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Who can direct when all pretend to know?
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are us...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our ver...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Crime generally punishes itself.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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

In all the silent manliness of grief.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with succes...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Hope, like the gleaming taper
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average w...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Fear guides more than gratitude.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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

For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that hu...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Tenderness is a virtue.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Aromatic plants bestow
no spicy fragrance while they grow;
but crush'd or trodden to the groun...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them ba...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the co...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest,...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The dancing pair that simply sought renown,
By holding out to tire each other down;
The swain ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

"Very well," cried I, "that's a good girl; I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, suc...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Every pang that rends the heart.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you,...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he: Ful...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Silence gives consent.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth; If he had any faults, he has left us in dou...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain; ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrust...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our ve...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where you taper cheers the vale ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I beli...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Pets inspire many different types of behaviour in their owners, mostly ranging from adoration to rid...
SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without er...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environme...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

It's quite amazing to me, as I walk around a supermarket or a health food shop, to observe the n...
SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

It's always harder to prove what somebody said when it's one person against another.
BARRY GOLDSMITH

There were some sprinkles or light drizzle but nothing of importance.
BARRY GOLDSMITH

It'll be a little bit tough. It'll get dense overnight.
BARRY GOLDSMITH

It drifted inland and collided with the East Coast sea breeze. From Brevard County north to Jacksonv...
BARRY GOLDSMITH

It won't wipe out stock fraud, but it will give investors a much better tool,
BARRY GOLDSMITH

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must nece...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
JAMES GOLDSMITH

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her mel...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and f...
MARTIN GOLDSMITH

While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and indi...
ZAC GOLDSMITH

With approximately 75 per cent of our rubbish generated by packaging, a few simple steps - buying lo...
SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH

What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly tr...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth and the Wang ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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