Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

• Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Pleasure, Charm

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Matrimony

  'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 16

• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Real

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

• The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Life, Looks

  Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick”, p.42

• All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Faults, One Love

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

• Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Change, Death

• When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Art, Betrayal

  The Vicar of Wakefield ch. 29 (1766)

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Men, Zealous

  Oliver Goldsmith (1845). “The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale”, p.96

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