Love Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Those who think must govern those that toil.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

Hope, like the gleaming taper

— Oliver Goldsmith

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The very pink of perfection.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I always get the better when I argue alone.

— Oliver Goldsmith

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

— Oliver Goldsmith

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

— Oliver Goldsmith

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

— Oliver Goldsmith

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

— Oliver Goldsmith

Crime generally punishes itself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Crimes generally punish themselves.

— Oliver Goldsmith

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently…

— Oliver Goldsmith