Oliver Goldsmith Quotes about Ambition

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

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Ambition, Forever, Ambitious

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

Oliver Goldsmith

Ambition, Giving, Please

Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Rose, Thomas Percy, Thomas Campbell (1821). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B..”, p.38

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Oliver Goldsmith

Ambition, Kind, Fame

Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.3

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation.

Oliver Goldsmith

Disappointment, Ambition, Eye

Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.376